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He lets go, but starts kicking A while he’s down I scream some more I don’t care who hears, if it will make Justin stop

"This your new boyfriend?" Justin’s shouting "You love him?"

"I don’t love him!" I shout back "But I don’t love you, either"

There

Justin goes to kick A again, but this ti and pulls hiet hih, and Justin lands a kick right against his chin

The door fro into the gym They see me at A’s side They see the blood on the floor Both A and Justin are bleeding

Iossip Stephanie runs over and asks ain But he"Who is that?"

A stumbles over to me, and Stephanie tries to block him I realize this makes sense Justin is my boyfriend A is an outsider I could lie now I could pretend I’m on Justin’s side Only Justin would know the truth, and his pridewith the lie

But I can’t I can’t

"I have to go," A is telling me "Meet me at the Starbucks where we first ht behind hi for his shoulder The hand lands, but instead of being pulled around, A frees himself and bolts

There are tears in th to stand Our gybitch!" Justin yells Everyone hears hih So you can go fuck any guy you want You won’t even have to do it behind reat, but you’re not You’re not"

I’ harder now

"Justin, back off," Stephanie says

"Don’t try to defend her!" he yells at her "She’s the one who did this!"

The teacher’s on us now, seeingthe blood She has questions Stephanie has questions Lindsay, off to the side, gloats A male teacher comes in and tries to take Justin to the nurse Justin tells the teacher to fuck off, and pushes out of the gye to say

Nobody believes me And that makes sense, because nobody should

Chapter Twenty-Five