By the third day after the Calfiornia chapters arrived the entire clubhouse felt split straight down the middle and somehow my name sat in the center of every conversation.
I noticed it the second I walked into rooms because voices lowered too quickly and people stopped talking the moment I got close enough to hear them.
At first I ignored it but then Casey started looking uncomfortable every time I entered the garage and Heath kept muttering things like ‘people are stupid’ under his breath and eventually even I got tired of pretending not to notice.
The rumors spread fast because apparently I was ‘disrespectful’ and ‘out of control’ and ‘acting like I owned the place’, which honestly would have offended me more if half the saying saying it didn’t look terrified every time Vanessa wa
