#Chapter38

“Are you making excuses for him now?” I ask in a petulant manner, knowing fine well what Charmaine is like. She’s a rich bitch bully with a squad of weak friends who do what she says. I have lived in the same neighborhood for a decade.

“No….. it’s just. If he had embarrassed her, she would make your life at school hell. Dane was ending it.”

“I can handle people like her. What Dane did was make a show of humiliating me. I’m not stupid… this was not about protecting me.” I snort at Tyler’s lame reasoning, knowing he is trying to smooth things over by lying for his...