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My shoulders sag when I hear Pierce’s voice behind me, and I wish to hell that I hadn’t stopped. I debate going back inside the hall, but I’m not allowing these jerks to herd me around campus like a dumb sheep. The pathways are well lit, and people are out. I start marching toward the dorm with him trailing behind me. Justin materializes as if summoned and walks behind him.
“You don’t like to listen, Astrid,” Pierce continues a conversation we weren’t having.
“Why are you still pestering me?” I ask him, “Are you really that frustrated? You must be a loser if you can’t even score with one desperate girl with all your money.”
His ears turn red while he gets into my face. “This isn’t about me.”
“Is it?” I ask. “Still a virgin? You thought you had a chance to get rid of that little problem?”
“I’m not a virgin,” he lowers his voice quickly. “Don’t play like that.”
“I think you are,” I glance over at Justin. “And you definitely are.”
“I’m not,” Justin is wild-eyed like he’s caught in a trap.
“That’s why you came so quickly.” I laugh. “Cold air hits your dick, and you can’t hold back.”
Pierce laughs, no doubt happy to be off the hook. But Justin glares at me, and if looks could bury me on the spot, I would be under the nearest building. He walks on my other side, and I realize they’re boxing me in. I don’t say anything, but look to see who’s around.
“You lost your chance,” I tell them. “But you were never going to get it.”
“We’ll get another,” Pierce sounds confident stating his bullshit, “When’s the last time you had sex, Astrid? A girl like you can’t go for too long. You might get worked up and fuck the first dick you see.”
“Yeah,” laughs Justin, “Like Terri.”
I stop in my tracks. “Leave him alone.”
“Or what?” Pierce approaches, but he won’t do anything. A security guard is walking down the path from the opposite direction. “You’ll report us?”
I shake my head in fucking amazement. “I don’t snitch, not like you two.”
“I don’t gossip,” replies Pierce. His expression is serious, but he’s a liar.
“Then how did Rawlins find out about what happened?” I ask. “Someone had to tell. And I wonder how that lie sounded.” I imitate Pierce using a whiny voice, “She forced me, Dr. Rawlins. The bad girl touched me, and I felt funny in my pants. My crotch got tight, and I didn’t know what to do.”
Pierce frowns, but he keeps his hands to himself as the security guard walks by.
“I don’t snitch, Astrid,” he repeats the words with emphasis.
“Well, I didn’t tell on myself,” I reply. “My reputation is trash, which means I have nowhere else to go but rock bottom. I have no problem dragging you down with me with a few inventive lies.”
“You can’t do that,” Justin becomes agitated as he steps into my personal space, “You can’t go around telling lies about me. What are you going to tell?”
“Really? I can’t?” I ask, “So, who’s telling lies about me? Because I’d like you to tell them not to.”
Justin’s face contorts as his nerves take a hit. “You don’t talk about me, do you understand? Not about my family or me.”
I smirk. “Well, when you talk about me, it upsets my father.”
Pierce scoffs. “You don’t have a father. You have a mother, but unless she can remember who she was with that night…” He shakes his head. “You’ll never track down that DNA.”
I lift my finger, but I’m going to strike him with a threat. “I do have a father. And he’s coming to Stonehaven. And when he gets here, I’ll tell him to ruin you like you’re trying to ruin me with your lies.”
He tries to grab my finger out of his face, but he misses. “So, who’s your dad?”
“I can’t say.” Their laughter makes me feel stupid, but I conceal my emotions. Even if I did know his full name, I can’t tell. I won’t say anything. I won’t end my mother’s care to win a petty fight.
Charlotte heads up the path, talking to her friend Wren and a few other girls from our dorm. I detach myself from Pierce and Justin and hurry away to walk with them.
“Hey, Charlotte,” I speak in a bright, cheerful tone. “Can I walk with you?”
“Of course,” she giggles, then sees Justin and Pierce looking sullen. Charlottes waves to them. “Come away from those wicked wolves. I warned you about those men.”
The girls giggle, glancing over their shoulders at Justin and Pierce. I don’t know what the boys were expecting to happen, but I don’t think they thought the girls would whisk me away with them. I wrap my arm in Charlotte’s, and we disappear into the dorm.
