“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

as he had his own

the subject. She held a hand to it when it started growling

room service. He ended the call with

of the bottled water were

like healthy,”

palate leaned towards savory. Even Laura’s home cooking was deemed a tad too

fact, hot sauce was an indispensable staple for her

first-aid kit from which he acquired and passed

her arm and did not think it warranted a trip to the hospital. She reckoned that

fairly quickly. To her, the plant-based cuisine

choosers. Hence, she picked up

choose to bunk with a guy on purpose?” Tobias’s question was not

The girls in class are shunning me because they believe that I might

thrust out her phone towards him

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