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"What’s your proble one eye on the door for Maggie

He leaned forward "My probleht noant to help you, but I don’t kno The person you want to help you has been through her own hell, and she doesn’t need you holding her hand secretly in the halls and fucking Serena in the da hands this ot that

"You’rewith But I do know Maggie doesn’t need you playing with her head It’s not fair to use her, man She lost both parents at once In a fucked-up, crazy, horrific way Don’t do this to her Please, don’t hurt her"

Serena sat down beside aht?" she asked in true cheerleader-pep style

Brady glanced at her and gave her a s his gaze to his food

I wasn’t hurting Maggie It wasn’t like she had feelings for me in that way I had been careful to keep this at a friends level IShe understood me now, but she wasn’t attached to ood for me, and deep down she knew it I had explained to Brady that ere just friends So, obviously, I was allowed to fuck other girls And I wouldn’t hurt Maggie Hell, I’d kill anyone who did

Serena was saying soie had walked into the cafeteria Her gaze immediately locked on mine She smiled at me then turned away quickly Like she did every day She wouldn’t look at , and that smile wasn’t a real one Why wouldn’t she look at ?

Asa sat down on ht’s gaie sitting outside all alone, reading in the fucking sun I also hter We weren’t that dah so much?

You’re Much Stronger Than You Think

CHAPTER 19

MAGGIE

I need to talk to you

I stared down at my phone It was a text fro, but I left when Serena showed up I wasn’t into watching the what I pro his friend That didn’t mean I had to like Serena

Thursday I’d ended up in the restroom at the sa theuys’ bathrooe was one I wanted to cut out ofWest’s friend did notaround hi earlier Hiswith his dad had to have been bad Noas tiet a chance to talk to him about it

I moved out of the way of traffic in the hallway as everyone hurried to the gym so I could text him back