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Racing through the school, I ripped flyers of Jace and Allie at a pharmacy—kissing and picking out a box of Plan B—off the hallway walls and lockers. They were posted everywhere in the school corridors, on every locker, on every bulletin board, on every classroom door.
My heart pounded in my chest, and I hoped to catch Allie before she walked into Redwood. Nobody was answering their damn phone this morning, except Kai, and I really needed their help with removing all this shit.
When I reached a window, I peeked outside to see Jace Harbor’s Maserati pull into its designated spot in the student parking lot. After cursing to myself, I hurried out the front door and through the snowstorm toward his car.
Snow got caught in my thick black hair as I sprinted toward the lot. Allie slid out of the passenger seat, and I grabbed her hands.
“You should go home,” I said to her, glancing back at the school and all the passersby who looked over at us. “Don’t step foot in the hallways, Allie. I mean it.”
She furrowed her brows. “What’re you talking about?”
The first bell rang, and she stepped beside me to walk toward school.
I moved in front of her again. “Allie, please, just leave.”
“What’s wrong?” she asked, continuing to the building. “I can’t miss class.”
Jace and Poison walked behind us, talking about something I doubted I wanted to take part in after they ruined me in Principal Vaughn’s office yesterday morning.
“I’ll skip with you,” I said desperately, earning a look from Landon.
Allie stopped dead in her tracks and stared at me with wide eyes. “What is it?” she asked, brows furrowed. “You never skip class. What don’t you want me to see in there?”
I frowned, tears piling up in my eyes, and glanced over her shoulder at Jace. I parted my lips to say something, then pressed them back together three times in a row. When I finally got something out, I shook my head. “There are pictures …”
Before I could stop her, Allie was storming up the stairs to Redwood’s entrance and shoving the door open to see this for herself. The colored flyers of Jace and Allie were scattered around the halls, accompanied by the words whore, slut, and incest.
Allie plucked the flyers off the lockers as quickly as she could, her cheeks flushed as people stared and whispered in her direction. I followed her, tearing down the flyers and telling people to fuck off, until we reached her locker. People were crowded around it and staring at something.
She pushed her way through the crowd and collapsed when she saw the pictures of Jace and her in the locker room. My jaw dropped. They weren’t just any pictures either. They were of Jace eating her out, of him fucking her, of his fingers in her mouth, her brows furrowed in a lustful stare.
“Oh my God,” she whispered, body heaving on Redwood’s dirty hallway floor.
Not wanting anyone else to see them, I shoved my way through the crowd and ripped the flyers off her locker. “I’m sorry, Allie. I didn’t see these ones. I would’ve taken them down. I’m so sorry.” I continued to rip them all off until there weren’t any more naked pictures of her in Redwood’s locker room.
“You think this is fucking funny?” Jace shouted through the halls.
For the first time ever, all the chatting stopped, and Redwood’s halls were completely silent. Students shuffled to the side of the hallways and stared wide-eyed at Jace, who looked like he was on the verge of losing control.
I wrapped my arms around my best friend’s body and pulled her into my lap, stroking her hair. “I’m going to bring you home,” I whispered to her and wiped tears from her cheeks. “Don’t cry. People are mean, Allie. People are so mean. I’m so sorry.”
“Who the fuck did this?” Jace shouted.
When nobody answered, Jace stormed through the halls toward us. “Allie is my stepsister. We’re not related by blood, and all of you fucking know that already.” Jace grabbed Allie’s hand and tugged her to her feet. “You can continue to talk shit about us, but I love Allie, and nothing you do is going to change my mind about it. Grow the fuck up and stop being childish about a relationship you know nothing about.”
Everyone stayed quiet and glanced between them, then started whispering again.
“If you want to call Allie a fucking whore or slut or mention anything about incest, say it to my fucking face,” Jace said, glaring from person to person. “Because you have to deal with me now. Nobody insults Allie ever fucking again.”
The second bell rang through the halls, yet nobody moved.
“Do you understand me?”
Nobody spoke a word.
“Do you. Fucking. Understand me?”
