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One quick recording on Lacey’s phone and it was over for Brie. Bright side is, Lacey’s revenge scheme got Brie off our backs. The bitch landed so much detention she couldn’t possibly fit another evil plan to ruin our lives into her schedule.
Xav’s parents were fired from Easton High immediately, and as discussed, Mr. Hall rained hell down on Xavier for the confessions. Gave him a three weeks’ suspension and cleaning duty every day until graduation. Xavier didn’t complain once. He simply accepted things for what they were and waited for Duke to call and revoke his scholarship.
Only… they never did.
We later found out Finn’s dad had meaningful connections at Duke and pulled some strings. To this day, I’m still unsure what Mr. Richards had to do to switch up the narrative. All I know is Xav got a call from someone high up in the selection process a day later, praising him for his courage and selflessness in delivering his own mother to the authorities.
As far as my mother is concerned, I came close to becoming an orphan when I bailed on my assistant job. That tends to happen when you nearly give your mom a heart attack.
She was beside herself at the news that I’d be staying in Silver Springs. She tried everything to talk me out of it, but with my scholarship to Duke back on the table, she knew she didn’t stand a chance. Plus, Dia’s dads had already agreed to take me in until graduation.
She and Ashley forged ahead with their plan to move to LA to chase some huge opportunity, only to return home with broken dreams a week later.
Long story short, it didn’t pan out.
Mom, Ashley, and her manager Rob decided moving to LA was still the way to go, but they’d grant Ashley one last summer in Silver Springs before the big move.
You can imagine the situation it put her in with a certain dark-haired, green-eyed heartbreaker. Ash spent every spare second she had with Theo that summer, until September rolled around and an inevitable dilemma reared its ugly head.
Choose the boy…
Or her dreams.
So much has happened since then, but my most vivid memory is of the day Xavier got called to the police station for questioning. I tagged along for emotional support.
I can still picture the resentment, the pain, the sheer disgust in his blue eyes when they asked him to describe what he saw happen between Brody and his mom.
In detail.
The trial took forever to start, but we finally got into the Courtroom three months ago. It was the first time Xav had seen his mom since the day he’d exposed her crime to half the town. He didn’t want to see her before then, but it still destroyed him to watch his mother be put on the stand this way.
Brody, Finn’s brother and the student she slept with, testified in her favor. Made it clear she had never raped him, and, as wrong as it was, whatever happened between these two was consensual.
Then the verdict came…
Five years in jail with the possibility of parole.
We were shocked—astounded—that something as small as confessions in a book could have such a massive ripple effect.
That’s when Xavier stopped sleeping.
He drowned in guilt for weeks on end.
Drove himself mad.
I crashed with him at the frat house he rented a room in every night after that. Spent the next month reminding him his mom had only herself to blame. Delilah Emery made her bed when she chose to have sex with a sixteen-year-old boy.
Xavier and his dad paid her a visit a month ago. After months of rejecting her family, she finally agreed to see them. Xav wasn’t up for sharing when he came back, but he looked like the weight of the world had been lifted off his shoulders, so… safe to say it went relatively well?
Things started looking up from there.
Xavier was able to halt his free falling into bottomless pits of guilt and get his head back in the game. His plan is clear: get drafted in the NBA. And I have no doubt in his capacity to attain his goals.
He always does.
I got the proof of that last month, when he blurted a spontaneous “Move in with me” while squeezing in and out of me bareback in my bunk bed. He was making love to me so savagely, his thumb spinning around my clit so hard and fast, I thought he’d finally done it.
Driven me crazy in the literal sense.
