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."

appears ready to chop his

I'm still on the verge of tears

and already I feel guilty because I know

all hell is about to break loose as Blake follows behind her

A fucking scrunchie?

him say, “You dropped

for handing me my ass. It was actually more fun

me and smiles. "Maybe

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

quickly. "Look, maybe we should just

You could use it"

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

She

wait for her to get out. Instead, she looks away and clicks herself in while Sadie gives me the finger and burns out of the parking lot, like she's

until Ryan again informs me that people are watching, then I blindly crawl into my Jeep and follow him to the pizza place by his house. I don't

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 pissed

my empty plate.

whole tree thing

that better

"Yes,"

God, can we not talk about

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

sure your mom feels the

constant second—hand embarrassment and horror, just so you

of her face

of my Coke and lean back in the chair, explaining

didn't tell their parents she had a fucking boyfriend

that is Leigh. And to his credit, Ryan sits there and listens,

of the Cokes had rum

a damn bottle

I still support it, the picture that is,

He clears his throat.

phone, she can't even communicate with you right now and seeing that on your screen couldn't

do when one has to pee and seventeen of them get

to be