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I shot away froan said, "I don’t like that one"

"We’ll use a different station"

"No" He was in pain, but he wanted me to hear hi to quell the anger in me, the need to protectabout? Marissa?"

He nodded, sing and groaning at the same tiht There’s so Logan was still out of it, but I couldn’t tell how out of it he was When he didn’t say any more, I didn’t question him on it I took him home and I took care of my brother

12

THE CAFETERIA

I was tired

It’d been ry atI used their sister for sex When I realized who it was, I laughed She had coo, but I rejected her advances She had coan, and thento do with her I didn’t knohy she waited so long to say anything, but her brothers didn’t want to hear the explanation and a as launched between our schools We retaliated for Logan’s attack by burning down their barn It was their turn now, but they weren’t the only probleottenher anger froic, but I wasn’t arguing As long as both of the each other and I didn’t have to deal with the hostile between them and after another explosive confrontation in the hallway broke out between thean acted like he didn’t care about what Tate had done any, smart-ass ways and he seemed to be fine That et back in with Logan, she’d have to deal withto do more, or even have the opportunity to do more

As the door shut behindon a table, his feet on the seat He was slanced at her, I saw her adjust it to give hilanced up at me and narrowed his eyes I saw the silent question froave hi As I h the room, a few of the juniors nodded their hellos They were the top dogs in school during lunch since most of the seniors were allowed to leave campus Sometimes I sat with them, but the door opened and Kate strolled in She headed for their table, folding into the lap of one of the guys Her friends followed her except the one that Nate was hooking up with; she went to his table instead He was sitting with Ethan and a couple other guys frorabbing some food, I skimmed the room I could sit at any table, but then Tate cairls and I watched as they took the table next to where Kate was sitting with the guys Shit The fighting would start all over again I was tempted to leave and eat in my Escalade, but then I spotted an never repeated his comment about Marissa so I started to wonder if he had ever et away from the tension As I started towards her, I saw there were two other girls with her I grinned They all looked the sa the off into space

I stood beside the table and waited They didn’t noticea book I had shifted on asped Marissa looked up fro off into space, oblivious

Marissa asked, "What do you want?"

A grin for "Can I sit?"

"No" She looked horrified

"Marissa," her friend said, a note of alarm in her voice

"I know I know," she reassured her

The third girl still had no clue

"You can’t sit here, Mason No way," Marissa said firod"

I frowned I thought ere okay I hadn’t talked to her in a while This wasn’t the reception I had expected "Look, I’irls You don’t have to talk tofor a spot away froht now That’s it"

"Oh dear lord!" The third girl saw me and physically jumped off her seat She landed on the floor There was a moment of silence fro

"Shut up," I barked at theet away from that shit Another hush fell over the tables, but it was from surprise I could sense the interest All eyes turned to the table and a few girls in our class recognized Marissa They started whispering to each other, and I was beyond caring ould happen because of this I turned back to Marissa "I really just want to sit I don’t want to talk There’s no drama at our table in class I didn’t think there would be drale" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">