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."

ready to

verge of tears as

she jerks out of his embrace and already I feel

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

A fucking scrunchie?

say, “You dropped this

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

and smiles. "Maybe winning first isn't where it's at

to kill him. Blood pumps through my body as my nostrils flare. Ryan grabs me before I can run after Blake or just hop into my car, start the engine, and run him

we should just head out

You could use it"

but I want to talk to Harper. The minute my eyes search for

She

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

Ryan again informs me that people are watching, then I blindly crawl into my

says, "Tell me everything, like you're a girl on a super

my teeth and stare at my empty

whole tree thing called

like that better

"Yes,"

him. "For the love of God, can we not talk about

up his hands in surrender. "Fine by me, again, it's my sister.

sure your mom feels the

second—hand embarrassment and horror, just so

nightmares of her face

Coke and lean back in the chair,

explain how much it hurt that Harper didn't tell their parents she had a fucking boyfriend who also happens to be her brother's

I rage 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

of the Cokes

bottle at this

still support

He clears his throat.

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

know Sadie isn't being helpful either because girls have this need to stick together like they do when one has to pee and seventeen of them get up

going to be