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Laura opened her mouth, but the other hushed her "Stop it He’s been nice to us and you know it"

She closed her lared at her friend

Mason cleared his throat He was now beside ain, and his hand was at my waist He turned me to face them "This is Laura and Kelly I wanted you to meet them because your friends suck, Sahter

"My friends don’t suck--" Then the words died in my throat My friends did suck I rolled irls "Meet theairls"

Laura growled from deep in her throat "They don’t like her? Why aave me a sympathetic look Her shoulder lifted up "Sorry to hear that, but I’m not surprised They massacred Marissa when she was friends with Mason They hate anybody he likes"

His hand curled on ainst hied me from behind His lips rested near le rushed through me from the caress "I’m sorry to do this I know you like your friend Becky, but I can’t stand back anyirls don’t like me, but they were loyal to Marissa I really do think they’re good friends to have Talk to them for a bit If you don’t like them, you can leave" I felt his keys as he pushed them into my hand Then he pressed another kiss to my forehead "And I love you too"

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

The two girls dropped their attitudes as soon as Mason left They had reason not to like him, if he was the reason their friend left the school and as they started to detail the different groups at Fallen Crest Public, it seemed Mason wasn’t the only one they didn’t like They hated Kate and the Fab Four, as they called the rest of the girls Kate was the leader, which I had discerned already Natalie was the second leader and Logan’s hook-up in the group It seeured out, but Jasmine and Ethan would hook up Parker was Nate’s hook up whenever he was in town None of the couples, and they used that terether if both of the partners wanted it The only rule the applied to the hook-ups is that those three guys and those three girls couldn’t get together with one another So that an had never been with Parker or Jasmine Ethan had never been with Parker or Natalie and so forth

They held their tongues when I told them that I knew Kate had been Mason’s hook-up before I calared past me with such hatred, I was jolted from it, but then I turned and saw the objects of our conversation Kate and her friends had stopped in their path Their lared at roup was slow to follow, but they did Parker was the last and she sent ed her away

As they faded froht, Laura turned awestruck She oohed and aahed that Kate Sullivan had walked away from me Then they wanted to knohy, if there had already been exchanges between her and I I shrugged and told them that Kate are I wasn’t a fan of hers as well

After that bit of inforirls turned from polite to warm They acted like I was their new idol It made me uncomfortable, but it made irls were tough I knew they wanted to rip ht, but they stood down I wasn’t sure if that was good or not It alsoto do with it I’m sure they did I wasn’t stupid, but a part of ht Kate A shiver of ownership went through ht about her time with Mason My blood boiled as I reh his hair and tried to pull hiah me when I remembered how Mason had shoved her hand off

"Saan at the end of the Fiat He frowned and ran a hand through his hair As he messed it up, he shook his head He was dressed in jeans and his school’s sweatshirt "What are you doing?"

"Logan!" Mason shouted at him from across the lot His eyes met an, "Coestured to irls’ tension behind me One of the huo!" Mason gestured again "Coach wants to talk quick"

Logan groaned and ran his hands through his hair again "Saed forward Her chin was tightly clamped, but there was a tremor in her voice "Mason introduced her to us He wants us to be friends with her"

"Why?" Logan snorted He skied forward this time but skidded to a halt in front of her friend "We are not We were friends with Marissa and we still are All of you people bullied her and made fun of her We didn’t We stood next to her the whole tier start to rise in Mason’s voice

"Logan" I stepped forward He was locked in an angry stare-off with one of theht his shoulders