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“East wing bathroom, now.” Silence. “Yes, yes, I think she’s okay. You heard? A little heads-up next time, Scar. Yes, okay.” Lilly came over to me and clutched my shoulders. “Becca? Becca?”
Next time? There’s going to be a next time?How much more of this could I take?
“Becca?”
I jolted, blinking at her. “Yes?”
“Are you okay? You look a little weird.”
“Fine, I’m fine.” I swallowed harshly. Lilly didn’t believe me; hell, I didn’t believe me. The things they were saying… about me…meandtwoguys.
“Becca.” Her slim fingers dug into me, biting into my skin, and I blinked again. “You look ready to pass out. It’s not that bad, people don’t really th—”
“They think I had sex with two guys at the party. I spent most of the night puking in the bathroom.” And then Evan had shown up. I’d spent the night tucked in Evan’s bed.
Oh God, Evan.
But then I remembered the way he’d rejected me when I’d tried to kiss him. The deafening silence as he drove me to the end of my street and left without so much as a goodbye. Evan didn’t care. Not the way I thought he had. The way I hoped he did.
Scarlett slipped into the bathroom and closed the door behind her, blocking it so no one else could get in. “I’m sorry. I tried to get to you in time. Kendall is determined to ruin you.”
I screamed.
It came from somewhere deep inside me. Lilly and Scarlett stood, wide-eyed, watching as I yelled out in frustration.
“Better?” Scarlett’s lip tugged up.
“A little.” I slumped back against the tiled wall, crashing from my burst of frustration. “I just don’t get it. I’m no one. Nobody. Why does she hate me so much?”
“I told you. You’re everything she isn’t.”
“So it was Kendall? The roofie, the rumors?”
“Just because she was out of town doesn’t mean she doesn’t have eyes and ears everywhere. I have a sketchy memory of her lap dog being at the party.”
“Lap dog?” Lilly and I looked at each other.
“You know, Trevor, the guy she strings along.”
“Oh.” I searched my mind for any memory of seeing him, but I had nothing. Everything about the party had kind of paled into insignificance when I’d woken up in Evan’s bed.
“Do we know who the lucky guys supposedly were?” Lilly asked Scarlett, like it mattered.
She grimaced. “Vin and Malachi.”
“WHAT?” I shrieked, covering my face with my hands. “Oh my God. What do I do?”
Scarlett shrugged, but I thought I caught a glimpse of sympathy in her eyes. Or maybe it was pity. “Nothing. Just ride it out. It’ll blow over. We’ll deny it, obviously. Although Vin is loving it.”
My eyes almost bugged out of my head.
“I’ll get Jay to talk to him.” Lilly came over to me and wrapped her arm around me. “Itwillblow over. You’ll see.”
“This is… God, I hate this place.”
“Hey, hey, it’ll be okay. Don’t let her win. You go out there and hold your head high. You did nothing wrong. Nothing.” Lilly smiled and Scarlett gave me a half-hearted thumbs-up. But their reassurances did little to ease my emotions. I was angry, hurt, frustrated.
I was a ticking time bomb of inner turmoil, and I didn’t know how much more I could take before detonating. They were right, though. I couldn’t—wouldn’t—let Kendall win.
