Never Hide by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2022-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Chanel South trailed out of the school grounds. It was eleven thirty a.m. At this hour, only bullies and losers got sent home. It was a Chestnut Hill policy that bullies got kicked out of the school grounds, but only after they’d been ignored for long enough to make sure they caused damage.

She was not a bully, but with the bruise on her cheek, she sure looked like one who had gotten into a fight.

And if she was a loser, then so what? Nobody wanted to have anything to do with losers. She felt sore, stiff, and angry, mostly at herself.

“I didn’t get into a fight,” she muttered to herself. “I was attacked. And what I did was self-defense.”

She’d been defending her younger sister, actually. Because at this school, bullying was a problem. Chanel had been able to keep her head down, but Briony, her younger sister, was taking the brunt of it.

Chanel was not a popular girl. She didn’t have many friends, but that was a choice she made.

She’d once been popular. At the end of primary school she’d been part of the group that ruled the school, and could have continued to occupy a place of respect in middle school. But Chanel had made a decision to cut her ties with that group, and with the girl who led it.

The way Chanel saw it, she’d made a clean break. She’d never felt the need to hang out with them again.

But she’d felt the need to stop that group from harassing and hurting Briony. Chanel had moved on; Briony hadn’t. The bully was now picking on Briony.

Like a lioness protecting a cub, Chanel had muscled in to stop one of the girls in the clique from bullying her baby sis.

And she’d suffered for it. The girls had ganged up on her. She had the bruise and scratch marks on her neck, and she’d taken a few punches to the head and arms also.

She ached, not only from the assault, but from the fact she’d been sent home while they got off free and clear.

“And they’re going to be talking about this all day, getting more and more popular because they beat me up.”

She had to go home and deal with the shame, and she was sure it wasn’t going to be a pretty picture. Chanel hated this school. She hated these girls. She hated her parents for making her come here. How was it fair that she was getting punished for being a good sister?

She trudged along the street, her head down, concentrating on her shoes and her feet, putting one foot in front of the other, not thinking about much else.

Her father would be in the middle of a work day, so he wouldn’t be around to calm Mom down and keep her from blaming Chanel for the whole thing. Her mother would probably believe whatever the other girls told her. She was a real cheerleader for whatever the popular girls did.

And home was a long way off.

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