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“I never thought you’d lie to my face, Joe,” I muttered, feeling thoroughly disappointed in him. “It hurts worse than I thought.”
“I didn’t lie,” he was quick to reply, tone hard. “You asked me if I heard anything about Ricey messing around with some girl from Tommen, and I haven’t heard anything about some girl from Tommen.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means what it means, Molloy.”
I stared at him for a long moment before finally getting his drift. “You’re being semantical.”
He turned his attention back to the open book in front of us. “Do you want me to write down the notes for you?”
“I want you to be real with me,” I whisper-hissed. “Joe, if you know something and aren’t telling me, then I’m going to be really hurt.”
Blowing out a frustrated breath, he rubbed the back of his neck and reached for his pencil. “It’s not my business.”
My heart plummeted into my ass. “Yeah, well, it’s my business.” I reached across the desk and grabbed his forearm. “Tell me, Joe.”
He remained stone-faced when he said, “I’m no rat, Molloy.”
“But you are myfriend.”
Tossing his pencil back down, he muttered something unintelligible under his breath before turning to face me. “I don’t know about anyone from Tommen, and I’m not going to stand over anything I haven’t seen with my own two eyes, but I know he exchanged some messages with one of the girls from here.”
“You saw those?” My breath hitched. “With your own eyes?”
He nodded slowly.
“Who?”
“Molloy.”
“Who, Joe?”
“Danielle.”
My heart sank.
Of all the girls in our year, I felt threatened the most by her.
Knowing that not only Joey but Paul had both succumbed to her allure was gutting.
"What happened between them?"
"Nothing.”
“Don’t lie to me, Joe.”
“Nothing happened,” he repeated. “There were a few text messages exchanged a while back, but that’s as far as it went.”
“And you didn’ttellme?”
“The fuck was I supposed to say?”
“How about ‘hey, Aoife, your boyfriend is cheating on you’.”
“Like I said before,” he growled. “It wasn’t my business.”
“Yes, it was,” I snapped. “You’re my friend, Joey. You’re moremyfriend than you are hers. Your loyalty should be with me.”
