The Unwanted Bride Of Atticus Fawn

Chapter 272

Book 4 Chapter 7

I can barely walk in the heels Clara chose for me to wear. If I fall and embarrass myself, I’m blaming her. Jenna can’t control her laughter next to me, and I shoot her a glare. She’s part of the problem. That’s why Clara found me yesterday and carried me to the mall. But if Jenna hadn’t told her, Clara would have found another way to get me to the mall; it wasn’t like I could have avoided her forever since we lived in the same house.

“Are you seeing what I’m seeing, Scarlett?” Jenna asks me.

I wasn’t paying attention to anything around me; I was too busy staring at the heels and trying not to trip.

“What are you talking about?” I ask her.

“Look up.” She whispers.

I do as she says, and only then do I realize all eyes are on me. I suddenly feel nervous under all the stares. I was no longer invisible. People were looking at me, at my body. I missed the clothes that covered me whole.

Men looked like they wanted to come and talk to me. I didn’t want to talk to any of them, however. I was never interested in finding love, and I still am not.

“I can’t believe so many people are looking at you.” She whispers. “I mean, you do look gorgeous. You always looked gorgeous, but it seems like it’s the first time everyone in school notices it.”

I’m about to respond when I spot Carter a little distance away. He isn’t looking at me, like always; he has another girl by his side. She has his attention, but we all know she only has it for an hour before he moves on to another girl. I don’t know how girls could stoop so low to get a chance with him. But who was I to talk after what I was getting myself into for my sister?

Girls would think that I was no different when they saw me hanging out with him if things ever got that far.

need him to see

unsure what I could do right now to get his

my book and drops it on the floor next to him. My eyes widen, and

it up.” She tells

was

a little longer than needed to pick the book off the ground. When I raise, I find him

still staring at me. He doesn’t look surprised that I’m dressed

carried away for a quick second, but there was something about Carter’s

I just thought

Clear your head, Scarlett!

“Scarlett!”

first time that he’s ever said my name. Even while he was dating my sister, he never called out to me. I felt strange hearing my

was surprised to see the

you doing?” He

am heading to class,” I tell

me so that only I could hear what he was about to say next, “No. I meant, what the f**k do you think you’re doing