Crown of Roses by E.M. Snow

Author:E.M. Snow [Snow, E.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

18

Two days pass in a blur, and I’m still reeling from the information Reina had given me.

It didn’t change the way I thought about her. I could only imagine I would have done something drastic, too, if I found out my father was sleeping with my best friend. That is, if I knew what it was like to even have a father, for that matter.

School is just as bad as always. I don’t know what happened that set Margaret off, but she’s even worse than Kallista anymore.

That is, until I find out exactly what sin I’d committed in her eyes.

It’s lunch break on Wednesday, and I’m hanging out in the corner of the cafeteria. Reina has just grabbed her food and she’s on her way over to the table to hang out with me when suddenly, there’s snickers from all around the room.

The whispers that rush through the crowded lunch hall sweep by me like a gust of wind, and it doesn’t take me long to realize I’m the topic of conversation. Again.

But, I’m not sure what I’ve done this time to make everyone turn on me at once.

That is, until Reina drops next to me, her face grim.

“What the fuck is wrong with everyone?” I ask, looking around the room. I make eye contact with a few students, but they snicker and turn away, just leaving me wondering even more what’s happening.

“Look at your phone,” she says.

“It hasn’t gone off,” I pull it out of my bag, but she doesn’t care.

“Trust me, you’ll see,” she tells me.

Confused, I look at my notifications. I have the usual messages from my social media, but then, I see what’s going on, and my heart sinks.

Someone’s posted a video, tagging me and Phoenix both – and I don’t even need to open it to see what it is.

Clearly, someone caught the two of us fucking at the Halloween party over the weekend – and they were more than happy to whip out their phone and film it taking place, too.

“What the fuck!” I exclaim as I look back up at Reina.

Although she didn’t explicitly know what was going on between me and Phoenix, I’m not getting the impression she’s surprised. In fact, she seems to be just as horrified that it wound up online as I am.

“What the fuck is right,” she says, her tone low. “Just what the fuck.”

“Who did this?” I ask.

“Does it matter?” she shrugs. “It’s not like you can really come back from that no matter who it was. Fuck, was it Phoenix? Seems like the sort of shit he’d pull.”

“No,” I say, though I don’t recognize username of the poster. “I don’t think he wanted news to get out about the two of us any more than I did. Fuck! It’s been shared so many fucking times, I don’t think I’d even be able to track down who the person was who put it up anyway.”

“Does it matter?” Reina asks again. “The secrets out, game’s up. Where is the shithead anyway?”

She looks around for her cousin, and I instinctively do the same.

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