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“So?”

“So what the fuck were you doing dancing with hi tone in his voice

“I was having fun Is that a crie mistake, because it only made me think of the last time I’d put my hands on his bare chest

He grabbed bothmy hands in place as he narrowed his ice-blue eyes “Yeah Maybe it is”

I tugged hard until he releasedin my chest

“Why? You afraid if I dance with him, I’ll spill all of Oak Park’s secrets? I’ll tell hi matter? No one at our school wants to dance with lared at all of them “Or are you just pissed because someone in the world doesn’t hate me? Am I not allowed to dance with anybody, no matter what school they’re from? Is that it?”

“Yeah That’s it”

Those three words from Mason’s lips were so simple, so final, that I felt them down to my bones

My stomach clenched as a wave of nausea washed over me

He meant it

Just like he’d s would always be hellish as long as I stayed at Oak Park

They didn’t just want to ruin high school for me

They wanted to ruin my life

To ruin me

“You—don’t get to—decide that,” I said shakily, ht-or-flight instinct kicked in