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

verge of tears

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

heading toward Sadie's car, and I know all hell is about to

A fucking scrunchie?

“You

hair and says, "Good game, thanks for handing me my ass.

looks over at me and smiles. "Maybe winning

body as my nostrils flare. Ryan grabs me before I can run after Blake or

"Look, maybe we should just head

You could use it"

to talk to Harper. The minute my eyes search for her again, she's already hopping into

She

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

I blindly crawl into my Jeep and follow him to the pizza

"Tell me everything, like you're a girl on a super dramatic reality show. Then, tell me why you look so equally

at my empty plate. "Other than,

whole tree thing

that better

"Yes,"

God, can we

by me, again, it's my sister. If I could bleach my

“I'm sure your

"I have constant second—hand embarrassment and horror, just so

have nightmares of

lean back in the chair, explaining how everything

Harper didn't tell their parents she had a

then I rage about the chaos that is Leigh. And to his credit, Ryan sits there and listens, though I can

he wishes each of

damn bottle at

I still support it, the picture that

He clears his throat.

doesn't have her phone, she can't even communicate with you right

they do when one has to pee

going to be