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Kai quickly took it out of her hand, body suddenly stiffening, and clenched his jaw as he deposited the glass into the trash. He didn’t look up at me, didn’t even take a glance.
João loved Imani?
João didn’t love many things, except his family.
He never dated, said that no girl could ever keep his interest and that all the girls from Redwood Academy were the same and boring as hell. He rarely hung out with anyone other than Ana and us. He fucking hated the goddamn world.
But sometime in the last few months, that had changed. Imani had changed it.
Kai turned his back toward me and continued cleaning.
“You like her too?” I asked, noticing the way he had suddenly become tense.
He paused for a long time. “You know how it is,” Kai finally said.
Jealousy built up inside of me, and I couldn’t help but curse myself out because of it. Imani was something fucking special, something amazing, and not just to me anymore. I balled my hands into fists and drew my tongue across my front teeth.
I had been so caught up with Imani possibly talking to someone else on the internet that I didn’t realize my best fucking friends, the guys I had made a pact to destroy Redwood with, the gang we had vowed to never leave, had fallen for her too.
While I might’ve hated the fact that she liked the other guys too, Kai had been fucking happier than I had ever seen him after his parents died, and João had never even been on a formal date, never mind let any girl meet his family.
In some fucked up kind of way, we were a dysfunctional kind of family. But it was a family that I didn’t despise. It was a fucking family who cared about me. Nothing like Mom and Dad. And I refused to let anyone or anything take that away from me even if that person was myself.
Nobody was going to come between us. Nobody was going to split us apart.
Poison forever.
