“Sure,” he agreed. “I’ll get Erin to be friends with you. She’s a nice girl, and she’ll be a perfect friend for you.”
Although I liked Erin, I rejected his offer. “I don’t want you to get me friends. I want to make friends myself, without you having anything to do with it. You ruined everything the last time.”
“That was different,” he said. “Addison just wanted to be my girlfriend. Erin isn’t like that. She’s—”
“I don’t care,” I interrupted him, bristling at the mention of Addison’s name. “I don’t want you choosing my friends.”
“Okay,” he relented. “I’ll stay out of it.”
“Tell that b***h, Alicia, to stay out of it too,” I demanded. “If she and her minions bully my friends like Brooke did, I’ll—”
“They won’t,” he interjected. “Nobody is going to mess with you anymore now t
