Not the Only Girl — Episode 5

The guys made a sport of mocking me, sticking me at the top of the school's plain Jane's Marcus never got close to me at school, but the second someone ran after me, he was always the first to step in. The worst time, he got into a fight with a pack of guys over me and almost got expelled.

I cried while patching up his bruises, my chest aching too hard to speak. Not long after that, we started dating in secret. I truly believed that I was different, that I meant something to him. Then sophomore year Selena transferred in, gorgeous and smart. She knocked Marcus

off his spot as top student the week she arrived. Marcus wasn't willing to let it go and started picking on her. They competed in grades and in tournaments. The loser had to obey whatever the winner said. The whole school shipped them and Marcus cursed about it every single time. I'd never seen him like that

before. Later I figured it out. That's just what a teenage boy looks like when he's falling for a girl. He picked fights with Selena to get her attention. When she gave a speech, his eyes followed her across the stage. If she caught him looking, he'd snap his gaze