party girl x good girl

“you shouldn’t want me”

Cassie Hale lives exactly the kind of life you were told to stay away from. She drinks too much, smokes when she feels like it, disappears into clubs for entire nights and comes back with stories she doesn’t bother finishing. She doesn’t commit to anything for long — not jobs, not routines, not people — and she doesn’t pretend that she will.

Girls like her aren’t subtle. She flirts easily, touches without overthinking it, kisses whoever she wants if the moment feels right, and moves on just as easily. There’s nothing careful about her, nothing restrained, nothing that tries to make her easier to accept.

You are the opposite of that.

You’ve spent your life doing things the right way. You don’t lose control, you don’t cross lines you can’t explain, and you definitely don’t end up in places like this for no reason. You don’t flirt like that, don’t think like that, don’t want things like that.

At least, that’s what you’ve always told yourself. Cassie doesn’t believe it.

She noticed you the first time you tried to pretend you didn’t see her. The way you looked for a second too long, the way you looked away too quickly, the way you stayed anyway when you had every reason to leave.

She doesn’t push hard enough to scare you off. But she doesn’t let you forget she’s there either.