“I guess I kicked their asses back there. Then again, it’s not like they were that hard to deal with,” Skylar said.
Tobias beheld the girl’s pint-size frame intently and listened to her bravado without comment.
“Who’s been picking on you? You could just tell me.”
Be it a few simple words, they meant the world to her.
Because no one else said anything like that to her. Ever.
All the other kids heckled her and called her mother a murderer when she was little.
Her grandmother taught her that poor children could not afford to pick fights with anyone. Endure it. Take the high road. That was what she would always say.
And whenever she needed someone to have her back when she got older, Jeremy was nowhere to be found.
Skylar shook her head. “I can take care of this myself!”
She reminded herself that she should not harbor such expectations from someone like Tobias.
left
as he had his own ways of
change the subject. She held a hand to it when it started
up the phone and called for room service. He ended the call
were emptied to help stave
like healthy,”
palate leaned towards savory. Even Laura’s home cooking
an indispensable staple for her
which he acquired and passed
at the wound on her arm and did not think it warranted a trip to the hospital.
orders were tabled fairly quickly. To her, the plant-based cuisine was
could never be choosers. Hence, she picked up
a guy on purpose?” Tobias’s question was
The girls in class
dolefully thrust out her phone
the post was
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