“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 at

make her, as he had his own ways

belly then proposed to change the subject. She held a hand to it when it started growling

and called for room service. He ended the

contents of the bottled water were emptied to help stave off

don’t like healthy,” she

savory. Even Laura’s home cooking was deemed a tad

hot sauce was an indispensable staple for her in almost

acquired and passed along the iodine tincture. “A lighter

on her arm and did not think it warranted a trip to the

quickly. To her, the plant-based cuisine was more

could never be choosers. Hence, she picked up the

a guy on purpose?” Tobias’s question

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

phone towards him

to the

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