Kestrel's POV
Sera froze in her step and stepped back from Zeph, her emerald eyes wide with confusion as she stared at me like I'd grown a second head. The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the campus courtyard, and I could feel the tension crackling in the air like electricity before a storm as she stared from me to Zeph repeatedly.
"Girlfriend?" she repeated, her voice barely above a whisper.
I watched as disbelief washed over my best friend's face, she shook her head slowly, as if trying to wake herself from a nightmare.
She couldn't believe what she was hearing and suddenly burst into laughter, it’s a sharp, bitter sound that made my body recoil. "Kestrel, you should stop letting Zeph's protection make you delusional. He's just doing this to get back at Diego!"
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