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“Just let it go, Lea,” I told her as I looked around the lunchroom. “It’s our senior year, and we promised ourselves we would at least try.”
That seemed to cheer her up a bit. As the daughter of the senator, she got a bit more leeway than I did. Just a bit, because if her father caught wind of bullying, it would rain hell in this school. The ammunition he could get if he found out it was the kids of his political rivals.
This school seemed to have something for everyone.
Just then, the doors opened, and Carolina walked in, followed by her brother and Sal. Maybe not everyone. The Zinnettis seemed to answer to no one, much to my father’s dismay.
Where Lea was prim and proper, Carolina was wild and free. Her uniform was one or two inches above what was acceptable. Her heels were so tall that I wondered how she got around them all day. No guy dared say anything to her for fear of dealing with Cristian. Sal and Armando were seniors, while Cristian was a junior and Carolina a sophomore. I looked around, but I guess the other Zinnetti must have had a different lunch than them. I shuddered, just thinking that today might have been different if it had been Cristian who’d been with me in that hallway.
He was more unrestrained and ready to go to war for his family than the rest of them.
“Oh great, they’re here,” Lea murmured, sounding less enthusiastic than I did.
“If we want food, we need to get up now,” I told her as my stomach began to grumble.
She looked at the line and at the Zinnettis who were chatting at the back.
“I’m not that hungry,” she lied.
“Is your mother making you diet again?”
Hurt flashed in her eyes, but otherwise she didn’t say more.
At times like this, I often wondered what kind of parent my mother would have been. I mean, her dipping out back when I was seven did say a lot, but a part of me never blamed her. She saw an out from Dad and took it. Good for you, Mallory.
“Come on, we need food,” I told her as I motioned to the line, glad more people had lined up.
Lea scrunched her nose but otherwise followed me. Four people stood between us and them. If Lea was uncomfortable, she didn’t show it. I was so distraught about the Zinnettis’ presence that I didn’t notice the person in front of me.
Shit.
My stomach was still sore from where the asshole hit me in the morning. He was a little sophomore prick who was mad because his daddy was sent to jail for embezzlement. High white-collar crime. He was friends with a few seniors, and they jumped in on his brilliant idea. Everyone loved doing bad shit, but no one wanted to get caught, and there was where I came in.
The little prick noticed me, and he seemed to grow ten inches taller with his chest puffed out. Lea immediately narrowed her eyes when she saw the way he looked at me. She came to stand closer to me as if I needed her to defend me.
“Round two, Lyons?” the little prick taunted.
Lea narrowed her eyes at him, and a devilish smirk crossed her face. “Is this the little shit who had the small dick?”
His eyes went wide.
“Not small, more like a micro dick. He didn’t know how to fuck.”
A throaty laugh filled the air, but we ignored it as the asshole's face got red in anger or embarrassment. It certainly didn’t help that his friends snickered.
“Aww, Tommy,” Carolina cooed. “Now I get why you’re always so obnoxiously loud.” She gave him a pitying look and focused on his crotch. “To make up for smaller things.”
Thomas, that was the fucker’s name. He was red as his friends all laughed at him. He took a step forward, but Cristian immediately put his arm around his sister.
Thomas's jaw went slack, and then he turned to look at me, promising me retribution. My response was to give him a lazy dismissal. Bullies like him got too comfortable tormenting others but never knew how to act when someone else knocked them down.
Unfortunately for me, I made the mistake of looking ahead, and my gaze collided with Sal. His hands were in his pants pockets, and a smirk was on his face.
I didn’t have to be able to read minds to know what he was thinking.
He was going to have even more fun breaking me now.
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