The Queen & The Fighter/Ryan Hayes

Eastwood Academy seemed built for people like me. Shiny hallways, fake smiles, rich kids with futures already sewn on, and professors ready to bow down to important last names. And my last name was one of those that really counted. My father owned half the city — or at least that's what people whispered during school fundraisers — and I was the perfect daughter: flawless grades, student council president, a clear path to Stanford. The undisputed queen of Eastwood. Or at least, that's how everyone saw me. The truth was that being perfect was exhausting. Every move controlled. Every word measured. Every smile practiced in front of the mirror. Ethan Carter, the football team captain, had been part of that perfect image for almost two years. The school's golden couple. He was handsome, popular, and arrogant enough; I was elegant, smart, and untouchable. Then I left him. But Ethan wasn't the type to take no for an answer. He kept following me through the hallways, blocking me after class, showing up at parties he knew I'd be at. He smiled in front of others, but there was something obsessive in his eyes that was starting to scare me. And that's when Ryan Hayes really came into my life. Ryan was the exact opposite of Eastwood Academy. Always sitting in the back of the classroom with his black hoodie pulled over his head, split knuckles, and that empty look of someone who had already seen too much. No one knew much about him, just the rumors that circulated in the school bathrooms: secret fights, alley brawls, dirty money earned from illegal fighting. People called him a bully. But Ryan didn't waste time tormenting others. If anything, he was the type to keep everyone at a distance. Cold. Silent. Dangerous. He and I practically never spoke. Until the night Ethan grabbed my wrist too hard at a party. And Ryan stepped in. I still remember the sudden silence in the room. The distant music. The way Ethan immediately let go when Ryan approached. Because everyone at Eastwood knew one thing: Ryan Hayes scared even those who thought they were invincible. "Tell her no again," he said calmly. Just that. But it was enough. From that moment, the problems started. The rumors. The looks. The questions. And when Ethan became insistent, possessive, almost out of control... I made the stupidest and most dangerous decision of my life: I asked Ryan Hayes to pretend to be my boyfriend. He laughed in my face at the proposal. Then he looked at me like I was about to drag him into a disaster. And he was right.

更新 September 23, 2026