Sophie finished tying her converse shoes when she heard a honk outside. Running out of the house, she was greeted with her two best friends sitting in a brand new, red car that Bella had gotten for her sixteenth birthday. Laughing, she she quickly jumped in the car. They drove off.

You might have been thinking that they were going shopping. Or better, the beach.

But no. They were going to summer school.

Sophie figured that if she had to miserably go to school during the summer, she might as well acted like she ruled the world.

Bella parked in the Silvadore High School lot, and they walked into school. There was still twenty minutes till class started. Sophie and her friends found a seat at the lounge area, and Pepper unpacked her bag.

"Pepper, are you eating your lunch right now?" Bella asked. She wore normal T-shirt and shorts; she was taking gym and health since she didn't have enough space to take it during the school year because Choir took up space.

"No, this is my breakfast! I was preoccupied feeding the monster this morning." Sophie and Bella looked at her. "Monster?" Sophie raised an eyebrow. Pepper looked at both of them. "What? I like to call the baby a monster because all it does is cry all night and take my sleep away."

Sophie nodded. She could see the slight shadows appearing underneath Pepper's eyes. "Bags aren't good for health, sweety." she told her.

"Easy for you to say. You don't have a baby monster living in your abode."

"Excuse me? I have a total of nine brothers- "

"Soph!" she was interrupted by a boy's voice coming from behind. She frowned and turned around. There stood Jed, captain of the varsity basketball team. His dark hair hung below his ears, and he towered above her. His grey eyes might have made him look gorgeous, but his expression was smug.

"You comin' over to my house, right?" he pressed, crossing his arms. Two other guys, or she she say, minions, stood behind him, shuffling around. Sophie stood up.

"Your house?"

Jed frowned. "You got my text, right?"

Sophie sighed and slid her hands into the back pockets of her jeans. "I sure did. But I'm not coming." Then she grabbed her bag and stocked off, suddenly eager to get the day over with. On the way to her Biology class, she texted Pepper and Bella to tell them sorry for just walking off. Truth to be told, she couldn't stand Jed, or boys like Jed. Even though she made her boundaries pretty clear, half the school apparently still thought she was a whore. Countless guys countered her, thinking that she would make an exception for them or something.

She sighed as she stepped into her Bio class. She intended to do well here; she didn't have time to take this class her freshman and Sophomore year, but she wanted to take AP Bio junior year and needed the pre-knowledge.

She quickly took a seat in the middle column and second to last row. As she eagerly waited for the class to start, her phone vibrated. A Twitter DM. Quickly opening her phone, she was not surprised when she saw a direct message from another boy- wanting to hook up with her. Honestly, she should just put it in her biography: "Not interested in boys." Unfortunately, she actually was interested in boys and this would start countless rumors claiming that she was lesbian.

Lost in thought, she didn't even noticed someone sit down next to her. Not knowing what to do, she blocked the boy's account. Now he wouldn't pester any longer.

"Damn, that's a harsh curve." She heard a deep voice say beside her.

"He had it coming." she automatically replied without thinking. Then she whipped around to face the boy who said it.

Sawyer's sea green eyes sliced through her puppy brown eyes.

"What are you doing here?" she asked, astonished. "I thought you were going to that football camp over the summer."

"I am. The same one Bella is going to. Its right after summer school." he told her.

"...Right." She turned back to face the front of the class room. There was still two minutes till class started.

"So.. do you always curve boys like that?" Sawyer asked her. Sophie fought the urge to crinkle her nose. She had to admit, this was pretty awkward. The only time her and Sawyer were ever hanging out was when her friends were with them. They had their share of jokes but it was never one on one like this. And now he was trying to ask her about curving guys?

"So.. did you fail this class?" she fired back, kind of annoyed that Sawyer was talking about her boy problems.

"Um, no? I need to take this class before taking AP Bio, and I didn't get a chance to take it freshman and sophomore year." he told her, almost like he was reading her thoughts. He was doing the same thing she was.

"Oh!" Sophie said in genuine surprise. "I never took you as a 'get ahead' kind of guy."

"I never took you as a 'get ahead' kind of girl.

Suddenly, their teacher walked in, stopping their conversation. The first half hour, they took a pre-test. Quickly turning hers in after finishing, she headed back to her seat to find a text from one of Jed's friends: Patch. The message read: Please text Jed back.

She rolled her eyes; people were so pathetic. They would do anything to have sex, and it made her want to vomit.

Sophie finally found the middle finger emoji and sent it to Patch.

"Damn, that was nasty." she heard a hot breath whisper straight into her ear. Shrieking, she jumped up out of her chair about 10 feet.

"Mr. Huggins and Mrs. Delarosa." Their biology teacher gave them a stern look. Sophie's eyes traveled back to Sawyers. He had his body facing hers, his head propped up on his hand. His elbow was resting on the desk next to him.

"You should own a 'How to Curve Boys 101' school. You'd be a great teacher." He flashed her a strip of his white, perfect teeth.

"Fuck you!" she whispered, though it was mainly for him scaring her before.

Sawyer chuckled. "I'd love that."

Sophie smacked her head. "I didn't mean it like that."

Looking back at him, she saw him already staring into her eyes. He leaned forward, not breaking eye contact. "Then what did you mean, Delarosa?" She opened her mouth to reply, but Mrs. Coates cut her off.

"Okay everyone! We're going to do an icebreaker activity." She passed out blank pieces of paper.

"By the way, I hope you like your seats. You're stuck with the person next to you for the next five weeks." She smiled at him, and Sophie couldn't help but cuss at her silently. She would have been fine with Sawyer, but with the way he was bugging the shit out of her, she knew the next five weeks would be torture. Slowly turning to take a sneak peak at Sawyer, she found that he was already staring at her. Sophie swallowed, and Sawyer raised his eyebrows at her. Sophie resisted the urge to kick him in the shins.

"Your assignment is to find out information about the person next to you. It's personal information, what the person feels at heart. We will be using it for the content we are learning tomorrow. And trust me, don't write random crap down about the person. I'm carefully reading these to grade. They need to be accurate. This is due tomorrow and you have the rest of the day to do it. From tomorrow, we'll be doing the real learning." she told us. Everyone cheered under their breaths; that basically meant we were doing nothing for the rest of the day.

Sawyer made a loud noise as he slid his chair back and bounded to his friends sitting across the room: Rohan and Max. Sophie sighed, figuring that they could finish their assignment after they came back from lunch. Searching the room for another familiar faces, she found a group of girls waving towards her: Julia, Katie, Hanna and Lena. She liked this group of girls; they were one of the few people that knew at heart that she wasn't a slut or anything, mindless of what the rest of the school thought.

Sophie quickly found Bella, Pepper and Newt at lunch. They sat with Julia, Katie, Hanna and Lena along with a few other guys and girls they were friends with. Sawyer and Troy sat with their crazy football friends.

"You're not gonna sit with them?" A girl named Jasmine asked Bella, indicating at the football table.

"Nope. I get enough of them at practice itself." Bella said. Jasmine smiled.

"The real reason is that Bella loves cheerleading more and wishes she never left." Pepper patted her arm.

"You do realize that I'm right here, right?" Newt exclaimed.

"So?" Pepper asked.

"I'm on the football team!"

"Your point?"

Sophie slowly tuned out her friends' conversation as she caught something at the corner of her eye. She found Sawyer standing up, and Julia standing no more than one inch away from him. She had one had on her hip and her other hand was dangerously close to Sawyer's chest. What was Julia doing? Sophie thought her friends would have better tastes in guys.

Suddenly, as if Sawyer knew Sophie was watching him all along, his green eyes cut directly to hers. She held a steady gaze, not daring to look intimidated. Because Sawyer was one of the only guys that intimidated her. Actually, the only guy.

He winked at her, and Sophie's right hand immediately shot up to flip him off. Sawyer laughed, though she wasn't sure if it was because of her middle finger, or something Julia said. Rolling her eyes, she turned back to her friends.

When she came back to the class room, Sawyer was already writing something on the scrap paper. What was he writing? They were supposed to ask each other and then write things down.

After listening to Sawyer's gliding pen for ten whole minutes, she had to find out. She leaned towards him

"What are you writing?" she whispered. A smile tugged at the corner of Sawyer's mouth.

"Stuff."

"What 'stuff'?"

"Just stuff."

"You're supposed to ask me that 'stuff'."

"I already know all that 'stuff'." Sawyer looked up at her and put his pen down.

"Oh yeah? What do I want to be when I'm older?"

"A lawyer."

Sophie flinched. For the sake of compitition, she had been telling everyone that she wanted to become a costume designer. That way, people would take her easy and underestimate her academic abilities.

Nobody knew she actually wanted to be a lawyer. Not even her brothers. Just her dad.

Sawyer took this opportunity of silence to ask the teacher to use the restroom. Sophie rolled her eyes, waiting for him to get back. She wanted to finish the assignment and she needed an A in the class.

After twenty minutes of waiting, she dragged her chair up to Julia, Hanna, Katie and Lena.

"Hey Soph, you finished?" Lena asked her. Sophie shook her head. "My partner decided to ditch."

"Sawyer?" Julia asked, innocently. Sophie bit her lip to cut back her laughter; the bitch obviously knew that Sawyer was her partner. Instead, Sophie just nodded at her.

For the rest of the day, the group talked about what they were doing over the summer and the cool parties that were popping up everywhere. Sophie gave up on waiting on Sawyer a long time ago. But she finally caught him walk in the classroom as soon as the bell rang.

Before he could walk off, she grabbed his arm. "Where exactly do you think you are going?" She lashed at him. Sawyer frowned.

"Um, football?"

"We are so not finished. I still haven't gotten information from you."

Sawyer hinted her the slightest smirk.

"Call me."

Sophie's mouth dropped. "I'm busy. Not gonna."

Sawyer turned around and left without saying another word.

After cheer camp, Sophie paced in her room. This was probably gonna be the easiest assignment the whole semester, and she was about to blow it off.

Because Sawyer couldn't cooperate.

Should she call him?

Under normal circumstances, she would. But he pissed her off so much today. More than that, he intimidated her. And she didn't want to look weak, running and chasing after him.

She had his number; they were in countless group chats together.

Staring at the number on her screen, she tapped it before she could change her mind. Sawyer picked up on the third ring.

"We need to meet." she told him.

She could already feel him smirking on the other end of the line.

"I thought you said you weren't gonna call, Delarosa."
Sophie rolled her eyes.

"Where are you?"

"Lucky Strikes. You probably never heard of it."

Sophie threw her head back, laughing. "Are you kidding me? I go there all the time." Her Latina cousins always managed to sneak her in. Before she could talk more, he ended the call. What the hell?

Sophie stared at the blank piece of paper. What did she know about Sawyer?

He played football. He lived on a farm. He had a stupid ass coy boy accent. He was a man whore. He did cocaine. He was in good physical shape.

But she didn't put that last one down.

Sophie grabbed her keys and went to her car to drive to Sawyer before she could change her mind.

There was a huge staircase leading up to the side of the building, and there was a huge line standing in it. Sophie tried her best to push her way to the front of the line, getting yelled and cussed at plenty.

"What the hell are you doing?" the guard at the front asked her.

"I'm not going in to play."

"Doesn't matter."

Sophie quickly ducked under him.

"If I don't come out in two minutes, I'll pay you your fifteen bucks." Then she stomped away, trying to find Sawyer.

On the second floor, she recognized the curly mop of dark hair piled upon a six foot boy. He was playing pool.

"Huggins!" Sophie yelled, knowing that she had caused him to mess up on his shot. Sawyer turned around and saw her, his sea eyes full of surprised.

The guard behind Sophie finally reached her.

"You are coming with me." he demanded. Sophie didn't leave Sawyer's eyes.

Sawyer slowly lifted his pool stick and rested it on the back of his neck. His mouth slightly curved upward as he told the man, "She's with me."

The guard reluctantly turned away.

"So you're gambling now?" Sophie looked at the setting. Sawyer never told her or anyone else that he did this on a regular basis.

"I don't want money." Sawyer's eyes glinted. Sophie held up the piece of paper.

"Just a few questions. I'll be out."

Sawyer burst into laughter, taking the paper away from her.

"Man whore? Does cocaine? Who do you think I am?"

Sophie snatched the paper away from him. "Clearly I would have a better idea if you actually let me ask you the questions!" she snapped. Sawyer held his hands up in surrender.

She quickly sat down on the ledge of the pool table, her thigh touching a purple ball.

Sawyer smiled sweetly at her. "You're ruining the game."

"Hopefully not in favor of you." she told him. "What's your big dream?"

"To kiss you." Sawyer drawled. Sophie narrowed her eyes at him. "Not funny."

Sawyer shrugged. "Guess not, but it made you blush." Surely enough, his green eyes swept up and down her full body, and she could feel the heat creeping up her face. Rolling her eyes, she asked. "Did you get a summer job?" she knew he had been looking for one; he wanted money to buy his own car.

"Yeah. I work at the Lifetime pool now." Sawyer didn't remove his eyes from her.

"Any other extra curriculars?"

"You said just a few questions. You're already on question four."

"Just answer the question, Huggins."

Sawyer gave her one of his slight-smiles.

"I joined Silvadore Parks and Rec volunteer center."

Sophie's eyes almost popped out of her head. No one except her parents knew she was doing that over the summer; it was mainly for volunteer hours.

"Wh-why?" she sputtered. Sawyer took a step closer to her and towered over her.

"You." he answered. For the fifth time, she narrowed her eyes at him.

"You're not impressing me." she told him.

Sawyer gave a short, inaudible laugh. "I haven't even started yet, Delarosa."

Sophie rolled her eyes. "That wasn't even a real answer."

All of a sudden, Sawyer's two arms were on either side of Sophie, resting on the edge of the table. He was merely inches away from her face.

"Those eyes. And that killer curvy mouth." He grinned at her. Sophie pushed him away with her hands and got off of the table. "That's it, I'm out of here."

Before she walked away, she turned back at him. "Why are you being so provocative?" She didn't understand why Sawyer chose this day to be an annoying ass hole.

"Say the word 'provocative' one more time. Your mouth looks provocative when you do." Sawyer smirked, his eyes filled with amusement. Sophie rolled her eyes and walked away.

She really didn't understand him. Until now, they were fine. They hung out with the rest of their friends. But Sawyer never acted like this. She was so fucking confused.