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Shiloh was the responsible one.
Super mature, always had been.
She’d never fall for a boy like Trigger. He was definitely barkin’ up the wrong tree with her.
“Let me guess,” Memaw stated, bringin’ my thoughts back to the boy I hated the most. “Jackson Pierce.”
“UGH! You won’t believe what he did to me! I’m gonna kill him. Like I’m really gonna murder him! I’m gonna go to jail!” I looked over at her. “Will you bail me out?”
She tried to hide back a laugh.
You see, Memaw Alex wasn’t a regular grandma… she was a cool one.
I still remembered the day a few years ago when she bought me a couple pairs of heart sunglasses at the Fourth of July parade in Southport. She never confirmed it, but I suspected she bought me those for one reason and one reason only.
To block out Jackson.
“You look stupider than you normally do, wearing those sunglasses,” Jackson harassed when he saw me wearin’ them for the first time.
I lifted my head higher, not payin’ him any mind. Pretendin’ as if he wasn’t there.
“Hello!” he shouted near my face. “Did you hear me? Or have I finally gotten my wish and your loud ass mouth can’t talk anymore?”
Still, nothin’. I couldn’t see him.
“She can’t hear you, dummy. She’s wearing her Jackson Blockers,” Shiloh answered for me.
“Her what?” he replied, confused.
“Her Jackson Blockers. You’re invisible when she has them on, duh!”
He didn’t wait for one second, steppin’ in front of my face and rippin’ them off. Immediately throwin’ them on the floor, he stepped on them. Crushin’ them into millions of pieces.
I just stood there not carin’. “It don’t matter. I have back-ups.”
“Yeah?” He cocked his head to the side with a nasty look in his eyes. Starin’ only at me. “I’ll break those too.”
“Memaw! This is not a laughin’ matter! He took it too far this time! O-M-G!” I laid my head back on the headrest. “I hate him so freakin’ much!”
“Calm down. What happened?”
I sat up, pullin’ Shiloh’s sweater away to show her the back of my jeans. “This happened!”
“You got your peri—”
“NO! Jackson put ketchup packets in my back pockets, and I didn’t even notice! And now the whole classroom thinks I got my period today!”
Shiloh chimed in, “Harley, they don’t think that. You showed them the proof. Everyone knows Jackson and you have this ongoing prank war.”
“It don’t matter! I can’t ever go back to school! I’m gonna have to move to another state! You think I could go under witness protection?”
“Harley, take a deep breath,” Memaw ordered in a soft tone, and I did as I was told.
“Take another one… that’s it… in and out…”
I felt a little better, but not much.
“Everyone is gonna be talkin’ ‘bout it at school on Monday. I can never show my face in public again.”
