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“Don’t you dare touch me, skank!” Stacy shrieks.
A little unoriginal there, Stace, but it will do.
“Who do you think you’re calling a skank?” I hear a familiar voice call out. The crowd centered around the two girls disperses just wide enough for Daisy to pass through. “You better not be talking about my sister or you best believe that nose job your daddy got you for your sweet sixteen is money down the drain. I’ll rearrange your face so good the best plastic surgeons won’t be able to fix it.”
To her credit, Stacy stands strong, even if a smarter person would back the fuck down facing such wrath.
“She’s more than a skank. Your sister is a total freak show. You disgust me,” Stacy yells, scrunching her face like she just smelled spoilt milk.
“Don’t test me, Monroe. Walk away. You’re getting on my last nerve,” Daisy threatens while Sky continues to remain mute.
“Ah! You don’t know, do you? The freak didn’t have the guts to tell you, did she?” Stacy announces, a gleam of victory in her eye. “Well, let me be the one to tell you why your sister is disgusting. Sky kissed Noah at my party. Yup. Her own brother! Who does that if not a total freak?!”
Everyone bursts into laughter, while Sky's gaze falls to the floor in utter shame. Like everyone else, I catch the stunned look on Daisy’s face. But if Stacy thought Daisy would join her fan club and debase her own sister, then she doesn’t know Daisy as well as I do.
“You’re done here, Stacy. Now jump back on whatever broomstick you flew in on and leave my sister alone. I’m not asking. I’m telling. Go!”
“Fine. I’ll go. But if the incestuous freak touches my boyfriend ever again, I’ll be back. And next time, I won’t play nice.”
“I swear to bloody God—” Daisy warns through clenched teeth and closed fists.
Stacy lifts her hands up and steps back from both sisters, a cunning smirk to her lips.
She accomplished her mission.
Everyone in the hallway heard her loud and clear. By noon, there won’t be a person at Bayshore High who won’t know what happened here.
The job is done.
Sky will think twice before she fucks with my life again.
That much I’m sure.
When the bell rings, I pull away from my locker and walk past them, head held high and a spring to my step, while Daisy side-eyes me all the way. But as I turn the corner, curiosity takes the best of me. Now hidden, I stand rooted to my spot and eavesdrop on the two girls.
“Is what Stacy said true? Daisy asks, confused. “Is that why we had to leave the party so quickly? Not because someone threw you in the pool but because you kissed Noah?”
“Yes,” Sky answers, tears in her voice.
“Oh, Sky. Why did you go and do that?”
“I…I don’t know. One minute he was yelling at me and the next…the next I wanted to kiss him. It all happened so fast. I’m not sure why I even did it.”
“You’re not sure?” Daisy asks, her tone incredulous. “Could it be,” Daisy pauses, her tone turning gentle. “Could it be because you might like him? Like Noah?”
I hold my breath, my lungs burning with the lack of oxygen waiting for Sky to say something. But when Daisy's question is answered in silence, I suddenly feel like someone just punched me in the gut.
“Do you agree with her? Do you think I'm a freak?” Sky whispers on a sob, the silent sound of her tears making my skin itch.
“No, Sky,” Daisy comforts. “You did something impulsive in the moment. You acted on instinct. It took courage to put yourself out there. I'll never reprimand you for being brave, sis. Never.”
“Not even if the whole school thinks I’m a perv now?”
“It will die down. That’s the good thing about high school. By the end of the week, there will be a new fuckup for everyone to gossip about.”
“Do you really think so?” Sky asks, sounding hopeful, coaxing a fist to twist my insides out.
“I do,” Daisy says assuredly. “And even if Stacy and her Barbie bitch crew give you a hard time, I got your back. Always.”
