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“You know, it does kinda ,” she’d ed onHildebrands! You are on their level Maybe they just got scared you’d send your grandparents after the such shits”

I’d chuckled and thrown a pizza roll at her face Honestly, I didn’t thinktheirs—but she had a point

“It just kinda sucks,” she’d said as she huggedadopted by them or whatever, does that mean I have to hate you now?”

“No!” I’d assured her vehemently “I’m not one of the the little bit of peace where I can get it, like you said They’re not my friends”

And they weren’t

I meant it

Just because they were no longer actively toret all the shit that’d gone down the previous semester thanks to their unfair war on me

But the thing was, I hadn’t realized how exhausted I was until the bullying stopped Hadn’t realized howme down until it was over

Soical warfare, some neay to control me and assert their do, I would take it

By the end of the third week of this strange new dyna out of rated intoto have a hard ti when they hadn’t been there Their voices, so farained in my brain now

I was starting to know their quirks, their habits I could read the expressions on their faces—even Cole’s and Mason’s, who presented themselves to the world as closed books

And I needed a break from it

In Che it under the table in my lap

ME: What are you doing after class? Shopping trip?

Her phone was on silent, but shetoo, because her an