Asher has been gone for almost a week and I hadn’t slept in days with the aftermath of that night.
One little party sent me spiraling further down the rabbit hole of madness. Everyone around me had new opinions of me, standing on different sides of a war I’d created. Eyes followed me, some with pity and others with disgust. Boys would sneakily grab my ass when I passed by and girls would whisper about me with laughter. Questions filled the school air of whether I agreed to sleep with Matt, being in a drunk state of mind, then backed out at the last minute.
A tease, they called me. A temptress.
Ezra even kept his distance from me, telling me he’d tell me when to come from now on. Mom would glare at me and smack me whenever Ezra or Katherine wasn’t around, letting out her frustration. I r
