SOPHIE
By the time I get to sixth period, I've replayed the hallway thing so many times it's starting to lose meaning, like a word you say too many times until it stops sounding like a word.
*Don't talk about her like that.*
That's what he said. I heard it clear as anything, standing there pretending to be very interested in my phone while my actual heart tried to climb out of my chest.
Nathan Cole told Tyler and Marcus to stop.
The same Nathan who once asked me in front of half the cafeteria if I got my clothes from a tent store. The same Nathan who made a crack about my dad "going AWOL" that I had to walk into a bathroom stall to cry about. The same Nathan who has spent two years treating my existence like it was mildly, personally inconveniencing him.
That Nathan defended me. Out
