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I didn’t need to meet her. I already knew who the she-devil was!

“Traitor,” Sophie said.

Axel laughed. “Soph, be nice. Gigi and I are actually really serious.”

What?! How could they be serious? Axel was single at homecoming three days ago. And he told me he wanted to be single for the rest of the year. Because dating someone for several months before going off to college would just be...well...unserious!

“You don’t mind if we sit with you guys, right?” Gigi asked. She smiled in that fake sweet way of hers.

Georgia and Gemma already started to sit down.

“There’s not enough seats,” Liam said.

Thank goodness. He was right. There were only three seats.

Gigi laughed like that was hilarious. “Then the freshmen should probably leave.”

Liam laughed. “We’re not going anywhere. This is our table.”

Sometimes my little brother was actually amazing.

“That’s fine,” Gigi said. “I’ll sit on Axel’s lap. Right, shnookums?” She looked up at Axel.

Shnookums? Gross.

“Right.” Axel sat down and pulled Gigi down onto his lap.

She laughed.

“I’m sorry,” Sophie said. “How exactly did this happen?”

“It all started with that kiss on the first day of school,” Axel said. “I haven’t been able to get her out of my head ever since.”

It felt like my blood stopped pumping in my veins. And oxygen wasn’t reaching my lungs. Axel had told me that kiss meant nothing. That she’d kissed him and he’d pushed her off. It was like I was seeing it happen all over again right in front of me. One of the worst moments of my life on repeat. And everything Axel had said about it was a lie. He’d liked it. He’d liked her.

“Right, sweet cheeks?” Axel said.

Ew. Sweet cheeks was as bad as shnookums.

“Mhm.”

“And the she sent me soup when I was sick,” Axel said. “It was super sweet. She even somehow guessed my favorite.”

“Minestrone,” Gigi said. “Everyone loves minestrone. It was a lucky guess.”

That wasn’t his favorite kind of soup! He liked chicken noodle. Or...had he been lying about that too? Had he just tossed the soup I sent him on sick days in the trash for years? Something about that really stung.

“It wasn’t luck,” Axel said. “We’re just so in sync. You knew exactly what I needed.” His eyes trailed down her body. “When I needed it.” He said it so seductively.

Gigi leaned in and kissed him.

And the two of them started making out.

Axel buried his fingers in her hair. For just a second, before he closed his eyes, he stared at me while he mouth raped Gigi.

I quickly turned away.

Sophie pretended to hurl again.