“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.
she left it at
her, as he
subject. She held a hand to it when it started
and called for room service. He ended the call with a specific
were emptied to help stave off her hunger
like healthy,” she
home cooking was deemed a
was an indispensable staple for her in
first-aid kit from which he acquired and passed along the iodine tincture. “A lighter
and did not think it warranted a trip to the hospital.
fairly quickly. To her, the plant-based cuisine was more aesthetic
choosers. Hence, she picked
bunk with a guy
rumor spreading in the campus’ forum. The girls in class are
dolefully thrust out her phone towards him to prove
reaction to the post was unexpectedly
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