“Who do you think you are?” Ella narrowed her eyes.

  “No one. I’m no one.” Gaia looked down at the floor.

  “You sure were acting like you were better than everyone.”

  “I wasn’t.”

  “What does Mal see in you anyway?”

  “Mal? My boyfriend?”

  “Yeah, that guy.”

  “I don’t know.”

  “He’s probably using you for something. Why else would a guy like that be with you?”

  Mal was already 6’2 at nineteen, the same age as Ella. He graduated from Franklin High School in 2001 when he was eighteen. In his sophomore year at Hillman College (a private university), he majored in parks and recreation but he told people it was sports psychology since it was “cooler.” People, especially girls, were impressed when he said “sports psychology.” He was the starting quarterback at Franklin High all 4 years since he was already 6 feet at fourteen, his freshman year. He looked, talked, and acted like a typical jock. Not only was he popular at school, but he was also popular with the girls. He was good looking, charming, and wore a letterman jacket his first year with the letter M. That was a sign that he officially made it in high school.

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  Unbeknownst to Gaia, Ella secretly had a crush on Mal since they were the same age. They saw each other around school and made small talk here and there. They didn’t interact directly with each other until he started dating Gaia. The truth was, Ella and Mal have been secretly seeing each other since they were 14. They lost their virginity to each other during their freshman year, but nobody knew about it. In public, they acted like they didn’t know each other so nobody would suspect a thing. In private, it was a different story. They were all over each other as if they haven’t seen each other in ages. Throughout high school, all they did was fuck, smoke, and eat. All of this had to be done in secret, of course. That was their little fantasy. Something to look forward to, something that made their boring lives more exciting, and something that only they knew about.

  That may have explained Mal’s unusual knowledge and experience with women at such a young age. He did everything he wanted to do with Ella sexually, and expected the other girls to know what she did, the way she did it.

  Mal often dumped Gaia and treated her like shit since he was already dating Ella way before they dated each other. Ella has been dating him for 5 years. She did everything to him/for him/with him. Naturally, she felt protective and possessive of him, and scared off whoever he was dating. When she found out that he took an interest in her little sister, she raged just like Eva, but couldn’t show it since her reaction would expose everything they were trying to hide.

  The thought of Gaia and Mal doing and saying things to each other the way Ella and Mal did sent her into a jealous, psychotic frenzy.