Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 357

Chapter 357

When they tried calling back, no one picked up.

Panic spread fast. The teachers and the principal glanced toward Carter, like drowning people reaching for the nearest lifeline.

“Mr. Biggs… you can’t just leave us like this,” the principal stammered. “We-we were just following your instructions!”

Carter’s face was still shadowed from that slap. His expression was dark, sharp-edged, barely controlled. “When,” he asked coldly, “did I ever tell you to do this?”

The principal was close to tears. “But the order did come from you-or at least that’s what we were told…”

Off to the side, Kelly’s heart sank.

The principal pressed on. “It was… Nate Hendricks. He said it himself-told us directly. He’s been your friend for years. We… we’re just ordinary people. How could we possibly afford to offend someone like him… or you?”

Carter’s face turned stormy. He pulled out his phone and dialed. “Get over here. Now.”

No explanation. No room for questions. He hung up. 1

Kelly’s fingers itched toward her phone, instinct screaming to tip Nate off. But with so many eyes in the room, pulling out her phone now would be suicide. Worse, it might expose her own part in all of this.

it didn’t matter anymore. If it

only… fine-tuned it a little. Made it less obvious. Stretched

dropping careful hints to get

stopped him. Physical fights left

Isolation, though…?

the wounds it left went deeper

to say? No one wants

wasn’t something anyone

the perfect kind of bullying.

it would

The video kept rolling.

it played through the full confrontation, Sharon finally understood why both Theo and Matty had kept

be mocked like that, openly, by a bunch of

Matty, “You didn’t come home these past few days. You never told us what

didn’t pretend.

hers entirely. “I was scared… scared if you found out, you’d worry all this trouble I was facing was because

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happiest I’ve ever been. I don’t care if this stuff

overheard her once talking