“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.

so, she left

was he going to make her, as he had his

the subject. She held a

called for room service. He ended

contents of the bottled water were emptied to help stave

don’t like healthy,”

Laura’s home cooking

was an indispensable staple for her in almost

from which he acquired and passed along the iodine tincture. “A

warranted a trip to the

were tabled fairly quickly. To her, the plant-based cuisine

Hence, she

bunk with a guy on purpose?” Tobias’s question was

a rumor spreading in the campus’ forum. The girls in class are shunning me because they believe

her phone towards him to prove her

the post was

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