Thin Skin_A High School Bully Romance by Indi Bluehart

Author:Indi Bluehart [Bluehart, Indi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The rest of the day, I kept my head down. I didn’t go to the library to sit with Lacey and her friends. Instead, I skipped lunch and sat behind a large tree.

After school, I lingered until almost everyone was gone. I stayed out of sight, watching Reed as he looked around as if he were waiting for someone.

Eventually, he gave up and left.

I think the only people remaining in the school were me, a few teachers, and the janitor who may or may not have also heard the nasty rumor about me. He didn’t look up from his broom as he passed by, so there was a good chance that even if he had heard it, he didn’t care.

I couldn’t stop thinking about everything going on in the town of Spring Meadow. If I focused on all the secrets, it would keep me distracted. Maybe I could figure out who had killed Piers Howard. And as far as I was concerned, I couldn’t cross anyone off the list.

I walked out of the school, my eyes moving over the empty parking lot.

“Are you avoiding me?” Reed said stepping out from around a tall shrub.

“Jesus!” I said pressing my hand to my chest. I leaned forward trying to catch my breath. “Don’t do that!”

He laughed but placed his hand on my shoulder and looked into my eyes with concern. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, yeah,” I said trying to figure out how to breathe again. “I’m just easily spooked I guess.”

“I just wanted to make sure you were okay after what happened last night,” Reed said. “I wanted to talk to you in school but I didn’t want to make things worse for you.”

I frowned as I looked at his bruised-up face. “I’m fine, are you? What did they do to you?”

“Just roughed me up a little trying to look tough for you,” he said.

“They looked like jerks,” I said biting my lip. “Does it hurt?”

“Not as much as my pride,” he said glancing my way briefly. “I look like a wuss.”

Reed started to walk with me even though I now knew he lived across town. “You looked like a normal person being attacked by an ape. I’m sorry I didn’t do more.”

“There wasn’t anything you could do,” Reed said.

“Your dad is on the police force?” I asked.

“Yep. Good ol’ Police Captain Hollis,” Reed said. “And I would have gotten in just as much trouble as Silas would have. My dad is kind of a hardass, so I appreciate you not calling him. He would have been angry with me, not Silas and his buddies.”

I chewed my lip. “You and Silas are cousins?”

“That’s right. How did you find out?”

“Silas,” I said not wanting to say any more about the dramatic scene.

“Our mothers are sisters.”

“Is his dad a hard ass too?”

Reed shook his head. “His dad is… I have no idea where his dad is. Dealing drugs somewhere. So, I guess his dad is too absent to be a hard ass. His mom left them a few years ago.

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