Author's Head Note:
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Soooo it's been a rough break for me.
My best friend's dad died. He was like a second dad to me and I've had a hard time dealing with his death. Please keep their family on your minds.
Also, I've been staying with my grandmother who (sadly) didn't have WiFi so I couldn't upload anything I had written on the drive over to her house.
But, I'm back home now, the funeral is tomorrow, and I'm wiped. Here's a chapter. Honestly, I don't know what to say about it. I think it's good.
-A
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“Whore...”
“Slut...”
“Liar...
“Skank...”
Those are just a few of the words that are whispered at me as I pass through the halls of school the next morning.
Apparently, the stories about rumors traveling extremely fast through small towns are true; everyone seemed to know what happened Saturday night and Sunday morning. Yay.
Not only that, but they all had some weird interpretation of it. The story, or I guess the truth, got so twisted and warped by secondhand word of mouth, that I don’t think anyone really knows the truth. I even heard someone mention that I had sleept with a cow. Like, the animal.
I really hate people sometimes.
It’s like Denver all over again. Everyone staring and whispering like I’m the most interesting thing since the invention of cell phones. Except that this time, I have someone to stand with me through it all. Hallie walks with me, like a guardian angel, fixing anyone who so much as looks at me with a glare.
Yeah, I wouldn’t cross her this morning.
“Hallie, you can go to your locker, I’ll be fine,” I whisper out of the side of my mouth, hugging my books closer to my chest.
Hallie shoots me a look and keeps on walking. “I’m not going to leave you alone to the blonde sharks people call “popular”. Uh uh, not happening.”
I sigh. “Hallie, I can take care of myself you know.”
“I know. I just don’t want you to get suspended for punching any of them.”
I laugh. “Yeah, that’s probably a good idea.”
She grins at me over her shoulder. “Besides, no one will mess with me or they’ll get an ear-full and a fist-full of my brother.” Then, she gives me a curious look. “He’d probably do the same for you, too.”
I snort and stop by my locker, leaning against it. “Hallie, I’m pretty sure after my little argument with your brother last night, he would join in on the ridiculing.”
Hallie shakes her head, a small smile gracing her lips. “That’s not true. Didn’t you see him this morning?”
“No, what was he doing?” I ask, frowning as I swap out my books.
“He was completely chewing out a group of girls on the front steps. I heard him say your name and by the looks of it, he wasn’t very happy with those blonde bimbos.”
I snort, shut my locker, and shoulder my backpack. “Was Tess in that group?”
Hallie grins like a cat who just ate a canary. “Yep. And she didn’t look very happy, to say the least.”
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