Catch Me by E. M. Moore

Author:E. M. Moore
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2019-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

17

I meet Oscar in the library during English class again. We don’t talk much until the bell rings for lunch, and I stay right where I am. He peers over at me, lines wrinkling his forehead. “Not going to lunch?”

I shrug. “I’m not hungry.”

“Sounds like bullshit to me,” Oscar says. He seems tired, or more like he has a hundred different things on his mind. “Sounds more like you want to avoid the fact that your boyfriend punched his best friend because they’re both in love with you.”

I really fucking hate that he knows so much. I also hate the fact that I don’t have anyone else to talk to but Jules. It makes me want to tell Oscar everything, all the pent up frustration I’m feeling because of it, but it’s only because he’s right here and I haven’t been able to think about anything else all day but Lex’s black eye and what it symbolizes.

Instead of saying all that, I look up. “Something like that.”

“I admit, I didn’t think Reid was going to take it that far.”

My tongue itches to move. My lips ache to open, to agree with him, but I hold it back. “Nice ex friends you got there from Rawley Heights,” I say instead.

“Ha,” he says, emotionless.

“Did you know they were going to be that pissed?”

“To come at me at my new school?” He moves his head back and forth like he’s weighing the two sides. “Yeah, I did.”

I give him a disbelieving look. “Then why the fuck would you do it? And I don’t know if you noticed, but Sasha couldn’t get far enough away fast enough. She doesn’t give a shit about you.”

“And you do?” he asks. “Because you were there.”

“I was there for Cade.”

Oscar’s gaze lowers. “I knew what I was getting into when I agreed to do it. Sasha and I have an understanding. I’m not her knight in shining armor, and she’s no fucking princess. But we have a few things in common.”

“Why do I think the things you have in common are probably also the worst traits about you?”

“So, you have been paying attention?”

I shake my head, wondering why the hell I even engage in conversation with him. He brought those thugs to our school. Some terrible shit could’ve happened to my friends because of it. But no matter how much I want to blame it all on Oscar, I can’t. Sasha’s the reason why Oscar is even here.

“Listen, I won’t forget what you and your friends did for me out there. If they weren’t around, they probably would’ve busted my head in.”

“Yeah, I saw the golf club. And was that a gun?” I ask, almost incredulously.

“Rawley Heights isn’t a very nice area. You think you got it bad. Not even fucking close.”

I slice a look toward him. He seems to know an awful lot about me. Or maybe that’s just his way of trying to get me to say more. I don’t engage him on that, but I

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