Chapter Seven
Cherry couldn’t sleep for a second night running.
She flicked through old sexts from Brad, looking for love. None. No love anywhere. Nobody loved her, certainly not Phil. He’d made that pretty clear the night before. Maybe she shouldn’t have expected him to hold deep feelings for her after a few days and just one f**k, but how could he have given up like that?
Mom and Pop were mad as hell when they spotted Cherry standing arm-in-arm with Phil. “Where have you two been?”
Phil quickly unravelled himself from her, spitting out excuses her parents obviously didn’t buy. They weren’t stupid.
“How could you?” Pop asked. “Phil, you’ve defiled my daughter.”
“Well,” Mom said. “I don’t know about defiled...”
When he begged her parents’ forgiveness, Cherry smacked him in
