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It seemed like the only person I’d ever been safely able to talk about any of this as Steven, and that had turned into a big mess

I was going to do everything I could to avoid er mess

“I don’t think about him,” I said “But so part of us we know al about”

Ryan braked a little harder at a stoplight than he usually did “Not al, a woh, wouldn’t you think?”

The funny thing was, the anger in Ryan’s voice right noas scaringin Brad’s presence had at lunchtime

The idea of facing Mu me a lot more

When the lights changed and Ryan started the car rolling again, he see out s worse”

I felt that,that Tairl who hid away and didn’t ht she had saved

But there was soirl— that had come from Brad Chalmers All I kneas it was just asto be able to let go of this now it had started I wouldn’t let go of anything

Chapter Eighteen: Steven

During Monday lunchtime, she came to me

I’d gone to get so I left in my car and I sla atI wanted those lips on o

Unfortunately she was gearing up to talk instead

“So yeah, as you already know, I got in contact with my dad” She moved around the car so both of us had it between us and the rest of the school So out from her skirt had me desperate for her I didn’t knohy I was so obsessed with this girl, but the whole thing was going some seriously unhealthy places

And right now none of that ht into what I needed to talk about right now “Your dad is fucking Brad Chalmers”