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"I can still see it, Luke Every time I look at you all I see is her on top of you! How can I forget that? How?" If he had the answer, if he could o back in ti for it I believed him when he said he wouldn’t have cheated on h, I could tell by his face how much heHe had never done it before, no matter what Sandy said, that was the first tiht et it
"I don’t know," he whispered, his lip treet it too I ith everything insideyou I love you so ain and I couldn’t help but close my eyes and turn into his hand so he cupped , I just enjoyed the closeness of hihfeeling that everything was ruined, whether he meant to cheat or not, he still did it I felt bad that he was hurting, but I could still feel the betrayal and the pain in the bottom of my stomach, my heart was still broken
"I just need some tiet any better," I adive you some time, if that’s what you need I’ll wait forever, because you and ether You’re the only person I’ve ever truly loved, the only one it would killtomy cheek softly
His lips were only on host of them the whole drive to school Alex tried to talk tothe streets pass by in a blur
When we pulled into the parking lot Alex ju a protective arm around me as people started to stare and whisper Obviously news had already spread I let him lead ossiped and pointed at irls that wanted to talk to him; instead he walked me directly tofor irls, twin sister delivered Now it’s up to you to look after her until the end of school," Alex stated He bent and kissed the top of my head softly "If you needa s by both ofsoothing things like Luke ‘wasn’t good enough for me’ and that ‘I was better off without him’ All three of us knew that it wasn’t true, but I appreciated the solidarity frorabbedthat life didn’t stop just because I felt like I’d lost a huge piece of me From the corner of my eye I saw Luke walk in; he stopped at the end of the corridor and s off in the other direction I looked up at the ceiling and willed the tears that were building up, not to fall That was nice that he did that, I kneanted to talk to me, but I appreciated that he respectedthat I needed, I decided I should to go to the office and see if the new guy had decided to grace us with his presence I secretly hoped he’d skipped again today because I didn’t have the energy or the will power to be courteous to soood welcome to the school; the state I was in would probably scare hiether
"Guys, I’ in today," I said, s into tears
Charlotte clicked her tongue and waved her hand dis that today," she scolded, shaking her head
I sighed "I have to, I was asked to You knohat I’ing She rolled her eyes and I blew the to meet them in third period because that was the only lesson I had with the that he wasn’t here As I walked in the receptionist s up and I could see she aiting to gossip withexcluded and he’s not even started? Thatover the counter to talk to me "He’s here! He’s in the office; I think he’s in a lot of trouble though His aunt drove hied hiroaned Great, that uy and eat with him Now I can’t just escape into the bathroo "I’ll just sit and wait then shall I? I assu him around?"
She nodded "Yeah, thanks Maisie" She pointed to the chairs off to one side so I went to sit down and wait for him to come out
A few minutes later and the Principal’s door opened a couple of inches "Oh he’ll behave and come every day even if I have to drive him here myself," a lady said sternly fro aboutthat is?" a guy asked sarcastically
"Zachary!" the saroaned I really didn’t want to be showing this guy around at all
"What? You’re pretending like I’ five years old! Anyhatever, are we done? I need a s bored
"You cannot srounds!" Principal Bennett chimed in quickly, her voice firrounds then," he answered; I could hear the aht the eye of the receptionist as listening too Her ape and her eyes sparkled like this was thethat happened to her for weeks "Am I dismissed? Shall I send in the next delinquent for punish for an answer, the door opened and I watched as he walked out
My stoe smirk on his face that was exactly as I re at the receptionist before his gaze fell on er