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

verge of tears

of me, but she jerks out of his embrace and

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

A fucking scrunchie?

“You dropped this

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

me and smiles. "Maybe winning first isn't

me before I can run after Blake or just hop

says quickly. "Look, maybe we should just head

You could use it"

minute my eyes search for her again, she's already hopping

out. She hesitates putting

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

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

cracks his knuckles and says, "Tell me everything, like you're a girl on a super dramatic reality show. Then, tell me

and stare at my empty

the whole tree thing called the incident

that

"Yes,"

God, can we not talk

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

your mom feels the same

embarrassment and horror, just so you

nightmares of

and lean back in the chair,

flows through me as I 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 best

his credit, Ryan sits there and listens, though I can tell I'm stressing him out too because

of the Cokes had rum in

damn bottle

support

He clears his throat.

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

need to stick together like they do when one has to pee and seventeen of them get

going to