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"Yes, and so does the slut he cleated with," Iwould just go back to norht of Luke and what he’d done

"Today’s gonna be fun for you then I bet," he teased, laughing quietly

I stopped walking and closed my eyes "Do you have to be such an asshole? Look, I’arettes I’m sorry that you have to come to this school when you would probably rather be so over cars, or whatever the hell is it that you find interesting Just don’t take it out on me, okay?" I hated the way my voice shook when I said it, I hated the way I felt so broken and vulnerable, I just hated everything about etting better at the bitchy coh so I’ll let you keep working on them Come on, little miss DUI, I don’t want to be late for reat tiritted my teeth This torture would only last for a couple of days, by then he would know his way around and meet a couple of friends Then I’d be free to pretend like I didn’t even know hiht well, I’ll show you where your class is and then you’re on your own until this afternoon when I’ll see you in gy to be away from him I scribbled my name and number at the top on a piece of scrap paper and then handed it to hiiven me the other day "There’s a et lost or anything then that’s my nuirls will help you," I stated, turningto be swooning over the new badass

Zach shovedat h the deserted hallways I made the most of the quiet because I knew that in a fewwith people and everyone would stare atabout how Luke had cheated I sed the lu the night I’d actually considered finishingby the second

"The Principal said I’d be eating with you today," Zach said casually at ed "You don’t have to I have things to do so if you wouldn’t ested hopefully

He sonna do at lunchtiht with the little head at the party?" he joked

"Do you have to be such an ass?" I snapped, shoving on his shoulder

His s around" An apologetic expression crossed his face before he frowned and looked at the door of his next class "Thanks for showingover the dickwad, okay? He’s obviously stupid to have done that to a girl like you," he stated, crossing his arms over his chest, clearly uncomfortable

I raised one eyebrow That was the first nice thing he’d said to me He looked like a fish out of water, like he wasn’t used to being nice or so anywhere but ht, well, okay, yeah," Iwhat else to say "I’ll see you in the lunchroo to get there before the hallways filled with people Today was going to be hard; thank goodness I didn’t have any classes with Luke though so I got out of that one The sayhtmare no doubt

I stopped outside of , pretending to be engrossed in it as people strea with tears as people were already having whisper conversations aboutthe story over and over, how I had walked in on irl

I just kept my head down and willed the tears not to fall The worst part of all of this was: the one person that had caused me all of this pain and sadness, was the one I really wanted to hug ed for Luke; I wanted to bury my face into the side of his neck and wrapthat, it made me feel like a worthless pushover Hoas I supposed to uy? Could I? I wasn’t sure of the answer to that question at all

I kepteye contact with anyone, pretending to be engrossed in the lesson The time passed, slowly, but it passed As soon as the bell sounded I er and talk to anyone As I stepped out of the door I was engulfed in a hug by Charlotte who quite often ether

"Okay?" she asked, pulling back, looking atain "You know, I could hack the FBI and put a warrant out for Luke’s arrest if it’llat hed and rolled my eyes She probably can too "It’s fine, it’ll settle down"