Aimee was so stubborn in her blind defense of Brent. Was I the same with Joseph?
I suspected I might know the answer, and it scared me. No, we had to be different, right? If we weren’t… If Joseph never changed…
I couldn’t bear to think of it.
Yet looking at Joseph’s necklace around my neck, all I could hear were Asher’s words, “Take that off.”
For now, for my peace of mind, I unclasped the necklace and stored it in my top dresser drawer. Without it, I felt lighter.
I rubbed at my sore neck where the chain had cut into my skin.
With midterms creeping closer, I had been spending most of my free time outside of class and practice in the library, studying.
Today, I spotted Nicole when I came in the door, and hurriedly went to join her at her table. We couldn’t talk too loudly in the
