“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

as he had his own ways of

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

up the phone and called for room service. He ended the call

were emptied to help stave

like healthy,”

palate leaned towards savory. Even Laura’s home cooking

an indispensable staple for her

which he acquired and passed

at the wound on her arm and did not think it warranted a trip to the hospital.

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

could never be choosers. Hence, she picked up

a guy on purpose?” Tobias’s question was

The girls in class

dolefully thrust out her phone

the post was

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