• Chapter 9

  • I mentally kicked myself for being so pathetic. But years of feelings don’t just vanish overnight. It would be a slow, painful detox.

  • Mom, seming the tension, stood up: “Ill give you two some space, Going to grab some food from the cafeteria.”

  • Sid politely tried to decline but eventually agreed to stay for dinner. Once we were alone in the hospital room, I looked up at him with a forced smile: “Thanks for coming, Sid.”

  • Sid sat beside the bed, quiet for a moment before saying softly: “You don’t have to pretend with me, Phoebe.”

  • “You don’t need to smile if you don’t feel like it. It’s okay.”

  • I felt unexpectedly awkward.

  • I reached for my phone, needing a distraction.

  • Sid gently touched my wrist, his eyes concerned: “Maybe don’t check that right now. It might be

  • better to wait…”

  • But after our hands touched, he quickly pulled back. His ears turning visibly pink. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to… I just was worried about…”

  • I unlocked my phone anyway, immediately bombarded with notifications.

  • Several concerned classmates and friends had sent messages.

  • to each one until I saw a message from Mason, one of Zephyr’s

  • $200/hr? Or you giving discounts now that everyone

  • question

  • came

  • innocent

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  • Mason: [DiscordScreenshot.jpg]

  • railed so hard she passed out in the boys bathroom?

  • entertainment]

  • talking about it, might as well cash in,

  • Zephyr gets all the fun but you won’t share with his boys?]

  • violently as I

  • showed a Discord post titled:

  • passed out in the boys‘ bathroom

  • shooting a porno!]

  • detail how I was carried out of the boys‘ bathroom to

  • included a secretly taken photo that

  • unconscious, face flushed, lips visibly swollen from Zephyr’s

  • fever had soaked through my blouse, making it cling to my body in a way

  • looked intentionally provocative.

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