Always been popular.

Kelly Johnson was a very famous girl in Langston, mostly because of her family's status, but also because of her looks. She was one of those few walking temptations and it wasn't unusual to see people sucking up to her, just to get a little attention for being Kelly's 'friend'. Now the unusual thing was to see Kelly approaching a nerd like Lara. Most people were surprised, but also acknowledged the fact that Lara no longer looked the nerd everyone was used to.

Now walking down the hallways together with Kelly, nothing about her seemed lacking. In terms of looks, she was on par with Kelly.

Most people in campus walked in groups or gangs, even nerds. But Lara only remembered having one friend whom she hadn't seen around campus or heard from him since she reincarnated. She didn't try to reach out to him since neither did he, but also because she was a little annoyed with him. The previous owner of her body seemed to have had a crush on the guy, but nothing ever seemed to have happened between them which made her both curious and annoyed.

"I see someone decided to show their slutty side today," a feminine voice cut in through Lara's chat with Kelly and they both turned around to find Natalie Simpson standing with her arms crossed and her two minions behind her.

As soon as Lara saw the face, she heaved a deep sigh and also crossed her hands below her chest.

"Hello Natalie," she greeted with a forced smile.

Natalie scoffed at the greeting and seized Lara up and down, her lips curling up in disdain. "You finally got tired of pretending and decided to draw some attention to yourself, huh? Some skills you got there," Natalie mocked with a smirk.

Kelly rolled her eyes and was ready to jump in and put Natalie in her place, but Lara's mext words stopped her in her tracks.

"Uuh… I think I've always been popular," Lara retorted innocently, her face giving a 'duh?' look.

"Oooohh shiiit." People started swearing and cheering at Lara's comment, mouths gaping and laughter followed.

Natalie's face contorted with anger as her face heated up with embarrassment. She never thought the meek and gullible Lara would say something like that to her.

Natalie had always been a bossy person because she was used to getting what she wanted, and she just didn't know how to take no for an answer. The first time she was given a no was when her long time crush, Ethan, who happens to be Lara's best friend and crush, had blatantly rejected her advances. Natalie couldn't believe a guy had turned her down and needing someone to blame, she had vented all her frustrations on Lara by bullying her.

But something seemed to have changed about Lara since the day she had that accident, and Natalie was becoming too frustrated with her.

But despite all this, she was quick to regain her composure and make a snide remark to cover up her embarrassment. "Whatever Lara, your new… trashy and slutty look won't change anything. You'll still be a plain cannon fodder," and with that, she flipped her hair back and sauntered away, her little friends following behind her.

"Tsk! Don't mind her," Kelly comforted as she turned to Lara, who was taking out books from her locker for the next class.

"But that line was really hot though. Like duh… I've always been popular! I'm Lara fucking Kent!" Kelly tried to mimic Lara by flipping her hair back, then gushed excitedly. "Where was this bad bitch before though? It's like you descended straight from heaven —or is it hell? Whatever, I'm just happy because now we're going to be best friends," Kelly declared happily as she put her arm around Lara's shoulder and they walked off.

Lara's eyebrows furrowed at this new behaviour, but she soon remembered her resolution to enjoy everything, including a fun bestie like Kelly Johnson.

Kelly was majoring in literature so they attended different classes, but that didn't deter Kelly's excitement from her newfound friendship. While walking Lara to her next class in the zoology department, she mentioned something to Lara that quite disturbed her.

Lara didn't catch all the words spewing from Kelly's mouth since she was too talkative, but it was something along the lines of—hot pictures at a restaurant, a hot bodyguard, and holding hands and Lara's little black dress. Kelly had walked off before Lara could get a proper explanation, but that was what occupied her mind for the first few minutes of the lecture.

She couldn't concentrate on what was happening around her, and had even forgotten about her excitement to see a certain hot teacher.

Lara took out her new phone and logged into her social media handles, but all there was on her page was updates on famous celebrities and ads. She didn't know where to start, so she reluctantly typed in her own name, just to get a glimpse of what Kelly must have been talking about.

As soon as she pressed the search icon with her name typed in, several hot topics popped up on her phone screen and her phone buzzed with incoming notifications, making Lara suddenly aware of her surroundings and she quickly switched off the phone, trying to shove it back to her pocket.

After sucssesfully doing so, Lara let out a sigh of relief as everything turned quiet again. But when she looked up, she was met by the most gorgeous eyes starting down at her and very kissable lips smiling at her in amusement.

Lara's eyes widened momentarily and she gulped subconsciously as her gaze raked over Kyle's Adams Apple, then back to his smiling lips and over to his eyes.

Her heart racing, Lara wrung her fingers as she forced a sweet smile at the charming man before her.

"Everything alright, Lara?"

God, the way her name rolled out of his mouth and the drawl in his voice… he was doing things to Lara's body without even trying.

Lara clenched her thighs together as she gulped again. "Y–yes, Ky… Mr…Kyle," she stuttered in response, heat rushing to her face as she bit down on her bottom lip.

Seeing Lara's flustered face, Kyle's smile widened, pleased with the effect he had on her, although he couldn't tell if it was him or the nervousness of being caught using her phone in an ongoing class.

"Concentrate, alright?" He tapped his long fingers on her desk and Lara followed the movement with her eyes, imagining what other things those beautiful fingers could do.

Get a hold Lara!

"Yes. I'll concentrate," she said absentmindedly.

Kyle gave her one last smile before walking away. Lara's stomach was left doing back flips as she bit the inside of her cheek. His smile was so charming and light, making all kinds of emotions swirl in Lara's eyes.

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