Love Stems From Hate?

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
Makenna looked at him a bit dumbfounded. "Really?" She asked emotionless. "You're really trying to help me? Even actually offering me a job?" She asked really confused. It sounded like she didn't care but truly she did, she just didn't know how to react to him actually trying to help her. "Well um. I guess a thank you is in order?" She asked slowly, not sure.

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"Greg? He's always hated me. I used to go to this school before my parents separated." He said with a shrug as he picked up the rest of his papers and also grabbed the stack that Violet picked up. "Thanks." He mumbled softly as he stood up. "I hated this school before and that hasn't changed with time."

@ Beautiful Misery

(I am on my phone so I apologize in advance for the mistakes! )

He really wanted to take back the job that he had just offered her considering that she was still in shock that he would do so. "Yes, I am really offering you a job. It isn't a big deal." Alex sighed since he thought that he may as well give her a chance to redeem herself, to prove that she wasn't the same girl. "I do think that a 'thank you' is in order without the attitude." He told her and continued on,"Go and get ready. I will wait ten minutes for you and then I have to leave for work."

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Violet couldn't help but grin inwardly, hearing that he had enemies. So he wasn't Mr. Perfect after all, then. "Okay, well, I think I can actually say that 2 have that in common." She told him as she handed him more papers before standing up. Violet didn't really care if she would be late to class. "The people haven't changed at all since you left then.. although, I don't think I remember seeing you around..."

@ Beautiful Misery

(I am on my phone so I apologize in advance for the mistakes! )

He really wanted to take back the job that he had just offered her considering that she was still in shock that he would do so. "Yes, I am really offering you a job. It isn't a big deal." Alex sighed since he thought that he may as well give her a chance to redeem herself, to prove that she wasn't the same girl. "I do think that a 'thank you' is in order without the attitude." He told her and continued on,"Go and get ready. I will wait ten minutes for you and then I have to leave for work."

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Violet couldn't help but grin inwardly, hearing that he had enemies. So he wasn't Mr. Perfect after all, then. "Okay, well, I think I can actually say that 2 have that in common." She told him as she handed him more papers before standing up. Violet didn't really care if she would be late to class. "The people haven't changed at all since you left then.. although, I don't think I remember seeing you around..."

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
Makenna rolled her eyes, grateful but her pride always got the best of her. "Thank you oh so much." She said making her voice high pitched, dripping it in a sugary sweet tone though sarcasm was mixed in as well. "I'll take 11." She spoke before disappearing off into her 'room'. She soon returned, changed into the most modest thing she could find. It didn't look very great but it was the best she had at hand.

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Hayden, just as she couldn't suppress her grin, he could do nothing to suppress his chuckle. "I'm not exactly spectacular. It's easy not to notice me." He grinned. "I'm quite a nobody." He shrugged. "I do remember you though. A bit vividly actually. Everyone loved you but you always seemed to despise them." He said letting out a shy laugh.

@ Beautiful Misery

Alex sighed as she walked away wondering what had just possessed him to give her a job, especially with an attitude that. It was no wonder why she was getting fired from places left and right. Glancing at the time, he waited a few minutes before looking at her appear back into the dinning room. He didn't know what to say about her outfit. She definitely couldn't go walking around him with that outfit that had a skirt that barely went over her butt. "That isn't going to work so we are going to stop at one of the boutiques on the way. No questions or objections. Let's go." Alex told her as he quickly filed out of the house and got into the back of the limousine. There was no way that he was putting his reputation on the line with Makenna going around dressed like that. They would probably think that he had just hired a prostitute as his new assistant, which is exactly what he had just done.

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"Definitely. Quite a nobody that gets good grades and everyone loves him except a few people in school but everyone has those." She told him as the bell went off for the next period to start. Great, she was late because of this guy. Violet really didn't care about the fact that she was late but that she would be late because of him. She shouldn't have cared about him. She should have just walked away while she had the chance. Giving a sigh, she shifted the books in her hands,"Me? I think you have the wrong person or you're delusional. No one likes me and I don't like anyone. It's a simple thing, really."

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
Makenna sighed. "I really appreciate this okay? Seriously. Thank you." She said sincerely but quickly broke the slight tension she felt for apologizing by grabbing a smoke and lighting it. Taking a huge puff of it, she blew it out slowly.

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"Yeah. Everyone loves me I'm sure." Hayden answered with an eyeroll. "I think you have the wrong person if anything. " he replied simply. "And why do you mean no one likes you?that may be true now but when I used to go to school here there wasn't a time you didn't have at least one person trying to talk to you. You attract people with your mystery but that also keeps them away. It's a simple thing really."

He then grabbed the last remaining papers before putting them back in his binder, orderly as possible though still not good enough. "Thanks for helping me." He said with a small smile before beginning towards class.

@ Beautiful Misery

He gave a small nod, accepting that she had realized she took it too far. Glancing outside of the window, he heard the sound of a lighter being taken out and frowned. Alex coughed as she practically blew the smoke of the cigarette into his face,"No smoking in the car. It can get onto our clothes and it's unprofessional. You may smoke outside but never inside whether it be a car or the office." He turned his head to take a breath of fresh air as the smoke filled the car. "Makenna, seriously."

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As he walked away, Violet just looked at him like he was crazy since it was impossible that anyone wanted to be friends with her. Well, it was more like she didn't want to be liked by anyone cause they would turn out to be artificial anyway. She hurried off to class and told the teacher that she had to help a student in the hallway, which excused her for being late. As she walked to her seat, she eyed people wondering if they really had attempted to talk to her before.

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
Makena shrugged, taking another long drag before flicking the cigarette out the window. She didn't roll the window up immediately, figuring that he wanted the smoke to clear some and also because she loved the feel of the wind on her face. This brought a small smile to her face but it soon disappeared as they came to a stop in front of a fancy boutique. "Do I really have to go in there?" She asked in a small voice, something very unusual for her.

Whispers and stares were usual for her and she had learned to ignore them, but in there she would be forced to actual interact with the judging voices and that scared her.

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Hayden made his way to class, receiving a glare from the teacher for being late. Apologizing he took a seat and set up his desk. Notebook in the middle, 2 pencils near the edge on the left, straight up and down, and a pen on the right, slightly turned. Sighing softly he began taking notes.

The rest of the day passed quickly, something Hayden was grateful for. As the last bell rang he made his way out the front doors of the school. Scanning the area he saw Violet ahead and walked up beside her. "So how was your day?" He asked her curiously.

@ Beautiful Misery

He loosened up as she tossed the cigarette out of the window and started to glance at the boutiques as they entered the right part of town. This was where only those with the top dollar would be able to buy merchandise because it was all designer brands. Telling the driver to pull over at one of his favorites, he was about to leave the limousine when he heard Makenna speak. "Of course you do. The stylists have to fit you and the only way to do that is if you are there." Alex sensed that she seemed a bit uneasy about going inside one of the stores but it had to be done. It really wasn't that bit of a deal anyway; he didn't understand her. "Come on, let's go."

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Unlike Hayden's day, her day continued to drag on with countless lectures and annoyances. It seemed like it really would never end for her but the last finally rang. Violet sighed a breath of relief as she stood, not even bothering to properly back up her belongings. She joined the crowd of students in the hallway that only wanted to leave as much as she did, which automatically including elbowing and shoving. Practically being jarred around in the crowd, she was eventually spit out onto the side and glanced over to see Hayden. Well, great, out from one pan into the other. "Fine." She mumbled as she saw her locker ahead and figured she would just have to keep the silence till then.

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
Makenna rolled her eyes at him, seeing that he saw all of this as an easy process. The clothes would be easy, but the voices of judgment would be much, much harder. When he finally said it was time to go, her stomach lurched and she felt the urge for another cigarette, hell she really wanted something stronger than that.

Getting out of the car she followed behind Alex as they entered the place. Of course Alex was greeted with flirty phrases and Makenna, all she got was eyerolls and even a few not so secretive laughs.

"Hun I'm sure that you can't afford anything here. So I suggest you go somewhere more in your price range. Maybe the thrift shop a few blocks away?" A women with fancy jewelry and better clothes than Makenna had ever had said to her.

"I'm not doing this Alex." She mumbled shaking her head and walking back out the door.

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Hayden nodded. "Come on you're actually using the word fine to describe your day? You seem extremely unhappy but I'm guessing that happens everyday." He said with a shrug.

"I know one thing, I'm starving. This schools lunch hasn't changed unfortunately." He sighed. After a long moment of silence he broke it once more. "Do you hate me?" He asked her curiously and straight to the point. He really wanted to know why she seemed to cling to this hate of him.

@ Beautiful Misery

As they entered into the shop, Alex gave nods back the woman that greeted him by the front door and gave a hug to his stylist. "Jasmine, it's great to see you. See, I need you to give a makeover to my friend here." He gestured to Makenna who only seemed to be more uncomfortable with the people surrounding her. Alex turned back slightly as she started to move away and grabbed her lightly by the wrist with a confused expression since it didn't understand what was wrong. "Makenna, wait a moment." Turning back to the stylist, he excused them for a moment before bringing them off to the side of the store with a slight frown. "What's wrong?" Alex sighed since he couldn't understand what was bothering her. He was buying her clothes worth thousands and she didn't want them?

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She just rolled her eyes in response not seeing the need to explain her own feelings to him, to justify them. Sure, it would be the truth that she would be extremely unhappy everyday but that ended up being her normal attitude anyway. Violet looked down at the ground as they walked, seeing her locker in sight, but he just had to speak. Pulling off to the side of the hallway, she opened up her locker to shove some books inside and closed it back up again. "Yes, I'm glad that you finally realized it. This means that I don't want to be friends with you or talk to you, okay?"

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
Makenna sighed softly, not liking being eyed more and more. "Already these women are judging me. I'm use to it but usually I can ignore it but now I have to actually interact with them and I don't like this." She mumbled shaking her head, her strong outer edge gone for the moment. "I really really hate it." She breathed under her breath not making eye contact with him.

"I'm leaving. You go to work and I'll go back to what I do. I don't belong in this world of yours. Never have, never will." She shrugged, taking her wrist out of his grasp.

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Hayden sighed softly as he stopped at her locker. "Well why do you hate me? Did I do something wrong or what?" He asked her. He then felt he kept just getting more and more annoying. "Um uh never mind. I'll just leave you alone." He mumbled as he sped up. He always did that to people. He pushed a bit to much and they never liked him.

@ Beautiful Misery

Alex frowned because she was letting something like this get in the way of her success. He had dealt with public humiliation countless times because of this girl and, now, she was finally knowing how it felt - how much it actually hurt. While he rose to occasion, she shrank back in fear. "You can't let them get to you. This is exactly what they want, to make you feel uncomfortable. Being scared and running back to your old.. profession, isn't going to solve your fear of people's opinions." He narrowed his eyes at her as she tried to take her wrist out of his hands to move away from the store. "If you leave now, that's all you're going to be and I know that you have more potential than that."

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She remained silent since she couldn't tell him that her hatred sprouted from complete jealous. It was actually embarrassing for her to even admit to herself and it would never leave her mind. Violet sighed as he finally turned to leave her and watched as he left in the hallway. There was something lonely about the way he spoke and his demeanor. Could he possibly even understand that way that she felt even if she tried to explain it? Violet pulled her backpack on her shoulder again before leaving the school to walk back home.

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
Makenna scoffed. "Me? You really think I have potential? Yeah right." She grumbled but something inside her clicked. He was right. This guy who she ruined in highschool was now trying to help her. Something not one of her old friends ever did. They only abandoned her.

She then snatched her wrist from his. "Let's just get this over with." She sighed as she began back towards the women, trying to keep her head high no matter how hard it was.

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Believe it or not, for a moment Hayden had actually believed that maybe his assumption of Violets hate for him was wrong, though she had now proved him completely right. Oh well. It would now be like it always was. He would stay quiet, make good grades, get half hearted comments from his dad, though his mom was never much different, and that would be all. He was the cliche lonely boy that only wanted a friend but he knew this cliche would not have a happy ending.

@ Beautiful Misery

"Good," He gave her a small grin since she was finally starting to understand that she had almost made a horrible mistake. Taking her back to the stylist, he allowed Jasmine to take care of Makenna and do anything that she thought was necessary. "You'll be fine," Alex reassured her as they dragged her off to try on some clothes as well as get a haircut and make-up done. He was sure that she would come back a completely different woman. One who would no longer get those looks from people that were filled with judgement.

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After arriving home, Violet ran upstairs and threw her back onto the bed just wanting to listen to music. She turned on one of the radio and cranked up the volume, not wanting to hear the sounds of the other people in the house. She would never be loved by anyone and never let anyone into her bubble. She was too afraid to let that happen to her, too scared.

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
Makenna yelled internally as they dragged her off. They acted as if she wasn't there, saying more than a few rude things about her. Of course this cause her to mutter a few un lady like "fuck you"'s but they hardly seemed to care. After a little while she was done. She was dressed appropriately and her hair was now free of dead ends and had body an life. Thankfully her dark roots were now gone and her makeup looked better than it ever had. She returned to Alex with more than one suit of clothes, a few too many in her opinion and other "necessities" as the women called them.

"I'll put most of this back when they aren't eyeballing me. They just get piling stuff in my arms." She mumbled softly.

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Once Hayden got home he went off to his room, grabbing his favorite book off the dresser and opened it. He had read this at least 5 times cover to cover and had yet to get tired of it. He could hear Violets music from his room but didn't think much of it, he kind of enjoyed listening to it. To him music told more about someone than the actual person themselves.

Soon he heard a knock at his door and his dad walked in. "So Marie and I are having some important business friends over tonight and we really don't need Violets loud music throughout the whole house. Would you mind trying to get her out of the house for a little while?" He asked Hayden.

Hayden wanted to say there was no way that would happen, that Violet hated him and wAs too stubborn anyways but as always he kept quiet and agreed. Once alone again he sighed and was soon knocking on violets door.

@ Beautiful Misery

It took a total of two hours to completely do everything. Alex had to call off three meetings, held off two approvals, and one important business call so she better have looked better by the time she came back. He impatiently tapped his foot before seeing footsteps in the corner of his eye and turned to see her coming back. As she came closer, he examined her features: her dark black wavy hair finally looked healthy and trimmed, her make-up was on point bringing out her brilliant green eyes, and she looked like a proper professional. For a moment, Alex was even surprised that it was her and it brought a smile to his face. "Don't worry about it. Keep it." Alex said as the lady came up to him and he handed her one of his credit cards.

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Violet laid back onto her bed and closer her eyes, enjoying the thumping of the music. It lulled her to sleep, ironically, and it wasn't long before she had fallen asleep on her bed. After an hour or so, she heard the sound of a knock on her door and groaned before turning over onto her side. Who could have possibly wanted something from her? "What?" She called out in a groggy tone.

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
Makenna shook her head. She really wanted to know why he was doing all this. He had to have some reason behind it. Why would he help someone who only made his life hell long ago?

"I'm going to pay you back every penny. It'll be a while but I'll pay you back." She said stubbornly. She really hated hand outs but she really enjoyed this. She enjoyed it a lot. That wouldn't keep her from being her stubborn self though.

"Thank you by the way." She said with a small smile but soon looked else where as she grabbed some bags.

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"Um it's Hayden. You want to grab a bite to eat somewhere or something? Our parents are having some boring business dinner and I figured you wouldn't want to go to that." He said. He highly doubted she would say yes but at least he was trying. If he failed then oh well. Wouldn't be the first time.

@ Beautiful Misery

He raised an eyebrow really wondering if she would be able to pay back every single cent that she owned him for the clothes. Most of it costed thousands upon thousands of dollars for one item. Alex didn't doubt that she would eventually pick herself up but he really did doubt that she would be able to pay back everything while trying to balance out the costs of living. "You're welcome." It was hard for him to believe the satisfaction that he felt in hearing her gratitude. Alex almost would have admitted that he would have rather taken that over revenge. "Let's head back now. I have a lot of things to take care of."

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At the mention of food, she perked up a little finally realizing how hungry she actually was. Then she realized that she would have to go with him and that her parents were abandoning her for some business dinner. Of course, business always came first before her. Violet gave a sigh as she pulled herself off of the bed and pulled on a sweatshirt. "You're paying, right?" She asked as she opened up the door and pulled her hair through from underneath the sweatshirt.

@ XxLithiumWingsxX
"It'll be little by little but I will pay you back." She explained knowing she would never be able to pay it all at once. She nodded to him and then got back into the limousine. "Okay." She mumbled as they drove off. She really needed a cigarette right now but she didn't listen to the urge. She didn't want to get smoke in her clothes since it was 'unprofessional'.

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Hayden's mouth almost dropped to the floor when she so easily agreed. He really didn't think it would be that easy. "Yeah." He said shortly as they walked towards the door.

Once outside Hayden yawned a little. He hadn't been sleeping well lately but he had gotten use to it really. Honestly he always had trouble sleeping. "So what do you want to eat?" He asked her, hands in his pocket, only glancing her way a bit.