#Chapter297

Rumors, gossip, and other bull

Mack

Monday at school was so special. You hear so many things about yourself you never knew about yourself. Rumors are that stories—the same with gossip. I tried my best to ignore most of it, but it was hard.

Most of the day was like that, and the boys wanted to do some damage, but RJ had to wrangle them in. He was right. As much as we wanted to throttle the people talking, which was the entire school, we had to refrain from it.

Then, as the whispering started, it stopped. People would turn away when they saw me coming or avoid me....