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That sucked, and I never wanted to feel that again

"The video?" I grunted, wanting to sound tough but my voice cracked like I was almost in tears

"Your brother" He nodded "I saw hiht when you weren’t paying attention, but I had no idea what he was doing with it" He raised his eyebrows "Until thiswhen he emailed it to ht it would be a good idea to send that to everyone?"

"Yeah" He nodded resolutely, his eyes lighting up "I thought it was a perfect idea to send it to everyone Let the Give hi , "I didn’t know she’d react like that, but you knew you had that co? Yeah, this was real fkin’ funny

"She overreacted" I stood up straight, trying to nonchalantly e my dick back to life in a hallway full of people "I took the high road last night Besides, after what that dickhead did, did she really think I was going to do nothing? And why did it bother her anyway?"

The questions just kept cory

Sweat coveredher down and throwing her over e, thanks to us Trust issues," Madoc continued and walked around in front of me "Look" He lowered his eyes and shook his head "Normally, I couldn’t care less about who you screwed or what kind of trouble you got yourself into I’ve sat back and let you self-destruct But Tate? She’s our shortie Now, go fix your shit"

I watched him walk away, more and more baffled by how ht?

Yeah

Tate needed to trust otten into trouble last night She would’ve been worried and pissed if anything had happened tostupid

I’ that she i in the same place as her friend, without her, would piss her off

I barreled down the hallway, ready to yank her out of Calculus, but I slohen I got caught by the masses in the school all headed the sa, yelling, and whispering I saw so at their phones--the video, no doubt--and sonored the?

And that’s when I re that asseh , tired breath

Great I think I’d enjoy cutting off ed and weaved as quickly as I could through the long line of students trying to h the two sets of double doors to the auditorium

"Jared," so

Tate was in here somewhere, so I scanned the rows as I walked down the aisles We boasted about two thousand students at our school, but the freshy for blonde hair was a nightmare I’d really never noticed how many blondes we had until now

But I knew Tate

And I’d know her when I saw her, so I surveyed quickly before ere ordered to sit down

Walking down the center aisle and back up, I feltinto the center aisle Her legs were crossed, and one foot darted out of the row

Quickly, I walked up the violet colored carpet path and placeddown

"We need to talk" I spoke low "Now"

Her blue eyes narrowed on me, and , and I was just digging htened, and I didn’t know if I liked the dra I did well, so I engaged her

This wasn’t the time or place, but fk it

"Now, you want to talk," she taunted, and I noticed Jess Cullen, her cross-country captain, sitting next to her, completely still as she watched us

Tate stared ahead, refusing to look at et to react and behave without any by-your-leave from anyone else, but I’m supposed to drop my shit when you want my attention"

It wasn’t a question It was an assessment

"Tatum--"

"Now I’m Tatum," she sneered and looked at Jess "Funny how that works, isn’t it?" she asked

"What are you ripped the arer Always had

Our first kiss on the sink ledge, and I was hers

But, right now, she wasn’t angry so much as she was distant Her chin was tipped down, and she still hadn’t looked at me

That, I didn’t like

"You don’t involveher teeth "You don’t share anything withis on your terms…on your schedule I’m always on the outside, and I have to push azed out in front of her "I’ll talk to you, Jared Just not now And not for a while I need some time to think"

"To come to your own conclusions," I accused

"No choice when I’m the only one in the relationship You huain! You throw me under the bus for your own amusement When have you ever sacrificed yourself for me?" her cals, thick and painful

I’d barely gotten her back