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Thank you for tonight. Eli and I had a great time.
Evan???
Yeah. I hope you don’t mind. I called myself off your phone when you went to the bathroom.
Okay, I guess.
Night, Becca.
Night, Evan.
CHAPTER21
The locker door swung open,revealing a folded white square of paper.My heart sank. It’d been at least a week since I’d found a note. I knew it had to be Kendall or one of her minions, but when I smoothed out the paper, my eyes almost bugged out of my head.
Liar, Liar… play with fire, and you’ll end up burned!!!
I glanced around, my heart in my mouth. It could only be Kendall. Some sick attempt to scare me. Annoyed she couldn’t run me out of school with her vicious rumors, she was trying a different approach. But something about this felt different. More calculated.
Personal.
Who was I kidding? I was being paranoid. No one knew me here, knew my history, or the secrets of that night.
“You didn’t come to Jay’s last night. We headed straight there after the game.” Lilly sank back against the locker, and I balled up the note, stuffing it into my pocket. “What’s that?”
“Oh nothing, just some notes I don’t need.”
Evan entered my peripheral vision. He didn’t make eye contact—didn’t even look in my direction—but I couldn’t take my eyes off him. I wanted to be angry with him. And part of me was. The rest of me could only remember last night. His hands on my body. The way he’d held me as I came apart under his touch. I was beginning to wonder if something was very wrong with me. It wasn’t normal, surely, to have such intense feelings toward someone who wanted to hide you away from everyone? But something about Evan drew me in. Maybe it was the way he inadvertently protected me. Maybe the victim in me latched onto that, needed that quality in a guy.
Maybe a part of me wanted to be saved.
“So where were you?” Lilly’s voice pulled me back to the school hallway.
“I got off work late and headed straight home.”
Her eyes searched mine. “We didn’t hang out long. The guys were bummed the Wildcats lost.”
“I didn’t have them down as fans?”
“They’re not, not really, but they like to support Eric.”
Closing my locker, I turned to Lilly. “How bad was it?”
She shook her head with a groan. “Total annihilation.”
Walking side by side, we pushed through the morning chaos. Having a reputation as the school slut had some perks, and people parted when they saw me coming. But I couldn’t find it in me to care anymore. Caring meant Kendall had won, and I refused to give her the satisfaction.
I knew it wasn’t true.
My friends knew it wasn’t true.
Evan knew it wasn’t true.
That was all that mattered.
“You’ll be around at lunch?” Lilly paused outside her class.
“I guess.” It wasn’t like I had anything else to do. It wasn’t like Evan wanted to be seen in school with me. It wasn’t like that at all.
