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ant in return

to me, his expression st

ooked me in the eyes and asked,

asked that question. I really had nothing worthy that I could offer Jason. Mone

y head. "

sco

yes?" His eyes

or the first time in my life, I was ready to make a change i

shut. "Yes... I wil

through his face, b

me have your phone." He dem

umbers into it, and the next mi

in my face and said

ow have Jason's number? Gosh! This

y voice came o

viving, and start winning." And with that, he

looked back at me over his shoulder and said, "F

exited th

I stared after him. Why was he helping me

ave yourself, and Jason is the on

every student I walked past, whisper loudly about me. They were making commen

A hard chest, actually. The familiar pair of red s

ing all over fo

and I gulped

them on my skirt, trying to re

have yo

m. His eyes dropped to the jersey, and he scoff

.." my voice fad

low

gs trembling beneath me as I

going to do

enry and Chloe as

y fingers tightening

Adele.

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oing? I told yo

lin

t I stumbled. Then he dragged me down the walkway...past the professor's

quarters, past the ballroom, the old classrooms, and when we arrived at the old basketba

rossed his arm

h my body as I dragg

you playing?" He closed the distance betw

uh

ang out with him today? Why are you wearing his

h to talk, but n

bbing my cheek, pressing it hard. "You think yo

blurred as tear

ars, Adele? I'm not bullying you,

asking you

m. "This is not fair, Adele, you know? If you run

matters? To

ry grabbed me. It would bruise by m

ucking cra

s face, but I did a go

o stop hanging a

is face, but I could see and fee

things right, Adele. I don't ev

ently, then smirked

ightly in a way that my

don't want to keep being the prey and enduring eve

and do nothing, He