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Get up! Fucking get up!
I hear my sister’s desperate voice so loud in my ears. ‘Please, don’t. Mateo, don’t.’
‘You rolled your eyes at me, huh? You’re so desperate to be put back in your place, you little whore.’His voice is fire. It burns me. It destroys everything.
‘I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to. Mi dispiace tanto, I’m so sorry, please.’Is she crying? She sounds like she’s crying. Why can’t I see if she’s crying?
Shit. My eyes are closed.
I blink and he’s dragging her with him, her hair in a tight grip. Her groan of pain is sofucking loud.
I blink again, this time it takes me longer to reopen. It’s taking so long.
Come on, reopen!
My eyes don’t reopen at all.
But Bianco’s voice in my ears is clear enough that the images in my head match a form of reality.
“Basta, Rose.Stai zitto,” he growls. “I hate your little whining. God, I hate it and you know it. Now be a good girl, shut the fuck up, and take it.”
And then everything is black.
Black and terrifyingly silent.
CHAPTER 8
Numb – Chri$tian Gate$
Jamie
“Three of them?” I ask.
“Three of them, ‘Me,” Emily repeats. She hands me her phone and I grab it a little too avidly.
Despite my best friend’s warning, my brows still shoot up to my hairline when I see ‘Liked by jkwhite and 264 others’. Jake has liked the last three pictures Emily has posted with me.
“I was going to show you on Saturday, but I was busy. And on Monday you looked too good I didn’t want to ruin it for you.”
I finish reapplying my red lipstick and put it back in my bag.
“Are you saying I don’t look good today?”
“No,” she giggles. “Girl, you look fire.” Her voice becomes more serious. “I just think you’re not in a position where this would take you a few steps back anymore. I’m proud of you.”
I look at myself in the bathroom mirror one more time, rearrange my long chocolate hair, and roll my lips to make sure my lipstick is applied perfectly.
“Thanks,” I smile at my best friend.
On Monday, I showed up to school in a skirt a size too small, no tights, long knee-high leather boots. I was determined to have Jake biting his fingers with regret for letting me go.
He didn’t show up.
I still enjoyed the other guys’ attention. I enjoyed their eyes on me. I enjoyed Camila’s hateful stare.
He didn’t show up on Tuesday and I kept going.
It’s now Friday and Emily told me he was going to North Shore High. She saw it on Billie’s Instagram.
