“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
as he had his
to change the subject. She held a hand to it
and called for room service. He ended the call with a specific
the contents of the bottled water were emptied to help stave off her hunger
don’t like healthy,”
Laura’s home cooking was deemed a tad too
an indispensable staple
passed along the iodine tincture. “A
warranted a trip
orders were tabled fairly quickly. To her, the
beggars could never be choosers. Hence, she picked up the
to bunk with a guy on purpose?”
in class are shunning
dolefully thrust out her phone towards
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