You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 124

Easton

I'm a fucking mess through last period and can't even fucking text Harper to apologize or discuss the whole thing with her mom.

The sick feeling I get in my chest when I think about her not claiming me and of course on top of that the picture.

Fuckkkk, the damn picture. I see Sadie the minute I get out of class and think, oh good, someone I can convince to be on my side, when she smacks me on the ass with her backpack.

"The hell, Sadie!”

“How could you hurt her like that! I thought you trusted her! She was bawling."

Her own eyes tear up. "Really, Easton?

I mean, fucking, really?"

"Keep your voice down."

I grab her by the elbow and bring her toward my locker when Ryan walks up. "Is there a reason you're hitting him?"

"Yes,"

she seethes and looks around us. "He has a picture of Leigh on his phone with her tits just dangling out there and Harper saw it and it was the same day...it was..."

She shakes her head. "That same fucking day you guys decided to get serious, you lied, Easton. AGAIN!”

"Keep your voice down!"

Ryan repeats and shares a look with me. "Sadie, you don't know the whole story.”

Her eyes widen. "You knew?"

"Shit."

Ryan lowers his head. "Look, can we do this in the parking lot at least?

People are starting to stare."

to chop his dick

the verge of

me, but she jerks out of his embrace and already I feel guilty because I know she's taking

soon appears in the parking lot, heading toward Sadie's car, and I know all hell

A fucking scrunchie?

him say, “You

says, "Good game, thanks for handing me my ass. It was

and smiles. "Maybe winning first isn't

as my nostrils flare. Ryan grabs me before I can run after Blake or just hop into

quickly. "Look, maybe we should just head out and talk or

You could use it"

eyes search for her again, she's already hopping into Sadie's car and putting on her

She

get out. Instead, she looks away and clicks herself in while Sadie gives me the finger and burns out of the parking lot,

then I blindly crawl into my Jeep and follow him to the pizza place by his house.

my first slice of pizza before he cracks his knuckles and says, "Tell me everything, like you're a girl on a super dramatic reality show. Then, tell me why you look so equally

my teeth and stare at my empty plate. "Other than, you

tree thing called the incident

like that

"Yes,"

of God, can we not talk

surrender. "Fine by me, again, it's my

sure your

second—hand embarrassment and horror, just so

nightmares of

sip of my Coke and lean back in the chair, explaining how

how much it hurt that Harper didn't tell their parents she had a fucking boyfriend

about the chaos that is Leigh. And to his credit, Ryan sits there and listens, though I can tell I'm stressing him out too because he's had five Cokes and he

each of

a damn bottle at this point.

still support it, the picture that is,

He clears his throat.

on top of that, she doesn't have her phone, she can't even communicate with you right now and seeing that on your

either because girls have this need to stick together like they do when one has to pee and seventeen of

going to be