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CHAPTER44
June
“They really seem determined to make your life a living hell,” Braxton murmured conversationally while Mikey was forced to sit there, watching as the teenage girls that had tried to destroy her will to live all looked up at her and then-
“That can’t be good,” Mikey mumbled weakly when they followed that up by laughing before they all glanced back down at Nicole’s phone.
For the past three months, they’d taunted her every chance they got and when they weren’t doing that, they were doing everything within their power to get her kicked off the team. It never worked, but not from a lack of trying. She’d quickly learned not to change in the girls’ locker room for practice, opting to change in one of the two dozen girls’ bathrooms at Latin Scribe High School instead, and when her fan club figured out what she was doing, Mikey started changing in the equipment shed until that ended badly for her.
After that, she’d played it by ear.
She’d thought, hoped really, with the season over now that they would have moved on, but unfortunately for her, they seemed to be more determined than ever. They-
Had nothing on the teenage boy getting in line.
He didn’t need to do anything to destroy her will to live, not when he could simply stand there screwing with her head and there was no doubt in her mind that he was trying to screw with her head right now. For the past few months, the sick bastard watching her every move had been taking great pleasure in tormenting her, something that she would never forgive him for.
In her defense, Mikey thought that Sebastian was kidding when he said that he was going to make her wait to find out what he had planned, but if anything, she’d underestimated just how evil he really was.
That was her fault.
She’d always assumed that Jonathan was the evil brother, but she’d been wrong.
God, had she been wrong.
For the rest of the camping trip, he’d watched her with that gleam in his eye that could only be described as pure evil. He didn’t say anything, but then again, he didn’t need to, not when he had that damn gleam. God, she missed the days when he looked like he was going to be sick when he looked at her, Mikey thought with a heartfelt sigh as she…
Did he just wink at her?
That sick bastard, Mikey thought, shaking her head in wonder. She never should have let him know that she was curious about whatever he had planned. It had been a mistake, one that she was still paying for. She never should have asked what he had planned, never should have glared the first time that he toyed with her emotions and given him something to torment her with.
Slowly exhaling, Mikey-
“What the hell…” Braxton said, drawing her attention to find him frowning down at his phone seconds before a loud murmur took over the large dining hall.
Frowning, Mikey glanced up to find everyone sitting at the table next to them staring down at their phones. Louder murmurs drew Mikey’s attention to the fact thateveryonewas staring down at their phones. She watched as they shook their heads in wonder, laughed, and-
Looked at her.
“Oh, that can’t be good,” Mikey said as a loud chime drew her attention to her phone. Not really sure this was a good idea, she pulled her phone out of her pocket and felt her stomach drop when she saw the message waiting for her.
“Mikey, don’t,” Braxton said, reaching over to stop her when she opened the video featuring a screenshot of her face.
She watched as that fateful day in the cafeteria played out from beginning to end. The way they watched her when she was in line, the way they laughed as they rushed to get in place and the way that they smiled when that tray was dumped on top of her head. That was followed by all the times that they made her life a living hell afterwards knowing that there was absolutely nothing that she could do about it.
She watched as red paint was poured on her head, how the things they stole from her bag were dumped in the toilet, the way they worked together to trip her in the hallways, the way they went out of their way to make her life a living hell, the day of tryouts when they stole her clothes and dumped them in the pool before locking her inside, only to have all of that followed by the times that she struck out at plate, the way that her legs gave out at practice and landed face-first on the ground, all the times that they tried to catch her changing for practice, and-
Ended with one of the video clips of her crying that made its way online last year after Sebastian was caught breaking into her school.
“What do you think of your parting gift?” came the question that had Mikey swallowing hard as she looked up to find her fan club watching her with matching smirks.
“I probably would have been fine with chocolate,” Mikey said as she turned her phone off and placed it back in her bag.
“We wanted to make sure that you had something to remember us by next year when you’re back where you belong,” Nicole said with a syrupy sweet smile.
“Oh, and where would that be?” Mikey asked, grabbing her bag as she stood up.
“Anywhere but here.”
