“I guess I kicked their asses back there. Then again, it’s not like they were that hard to deal with,” Skylar said.
Tobias beheld the girl’s pint-size frame intently and listened to her bravado without comment.
“Who’s been picking on you? You could just tell me.”
Be it a few simple words, they meant the world to her.
Because no one else said anything like that to her. Ever.
All the other kids heckled her and called her mother a murderer when she was little.
Her grandmother taught her that poor children could not afford to pick fights with anyone. Endure it. Take the high road. That was what she would always say.
And whenever she needed someone to have her back when she got older, Jeremy was nowhere to be found.
Skylar shook her head. “I can take care of this myself!”
She reminded herself that she should not harbor such expectations from someone like Tobias.
so, she left it at
he going to make her, as
change the subject. She held a hand to it when it started
for room service. He ended the call with a specific
contents of the bottled water were emptied
like healthy,” she
savory. Even Laura’s home cooking was deemed a tad
fact, hot sauce was an indispensable staple for her
kit from which he acquired and passed along the iodine tincture. “A lighter palate will help with
it warranted a trip to the hospital. She reckoned
To her, the plant-based cuisine was
Hence, she picked up the
guy on purpose?” Tobias’s
a rumor spreading in the campus’ forum. The girls in class are shunning me because they believe that I might
thrust out her phone
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