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His eyebrows shot up "You did?"

"It wasn’t right and I feel horrible about it So does Mason He hasn’t saidon him"

"I know" He expelled a deep breath and sank onto the other couch Resting his elbows on his knees, he caught his head in his hands He scraped his fingers through his hair before he lifted those saain "I feel horrible about it He tried to talk to me at school, but I couldn’t I just," he took another deep breath, "couldn’t I didn’t knohat to say"

"I texted you We texted you"

He looked back down, and his head bobbed up and down "I know I got them I didn’t knohat to say, Sa and how Miranda spun it It rong Shit" He ran his hands through his hair again before letting the to say rong I dated her to protect you I wanted her to shut up and not go after you any me and she’d look like an idiot when I duure out to spin it this way I, "Then she started spewing about how I had feelings for you and that she told you, I didn’t knohat to do I don’t even kno she figured that part out, but everything elseI had to leave I had to think about everything and what to even say to you about it"

He didn’t believe her He did have feelings for me Both realizations shattered nificance of it He left because of hi over the text es

Can we talk?

Where are you?

Please call me?

I knew Mason had sent si about Mason’sThere had only been questions frood

I lifted horrified eyes back to hian," I choked out My voice was hoarse "Wha--what did she say to you?"

He frowned and anger flashed over his face for ame? She didn’t tell you?"

I could lie I could cover everything I took a breath "What did you say to Miranda? She hasn’t said anything totold her not to touch you" He grew heated "I threatened her, if she didn’t leave you alone, I’d tell everyone her secrets Trust rew sick "You recorded it?"

"Fuck no," he snorted "But I reraphic memory, so does Mason I remember every little detail People would believe s about all her little friends too"

"Secrets about the around each other "Yeah I have enough baggage on all theo ape-shit on her She won’t say a word I proan hadn’t believed her Heif that was true, but it didn’t matter Miranda did know She was silenced, but she still knew So did we I didn’t knohat Mason would’ve told me to do, but I knehat to do With the decision made, I knehat else I’d have to do afterwards

My storew nauseous I wanted to throw up, but I couldn’t My hands started shaking, but I heard