“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 it
to make her, as he had his own ways of finding
She held a
for room service. He ended the call with a specific request.
the contents of the bottled water were emptied to help stave off her
like healthy,”
savory. Even Laura’s home cooking was
indispensable
for the first-aid kit from which he acquired and passed along the iodine tincture.
not think it warranted a trip to the hospital. She reckoned that it would be fine before
her, the plant-based cuisine was
choosers. Hence, she picked up the
to bunk with a guy on purpose?” Tobias’s
campus’ forum. The girls in class are shunning
then dolefully thrust out her phone towards him to prove
to the post was
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