AMANDA'S POV
Two days had passed since Donovan told me he didn't want to see me with Steven. But staying away from him was getting harder by the hour. In this entire school, he was the only person I could still talk to. The only one willing to give me even a shred of attention.
I kept my head down. I stopped raising my hand in class. I didn't leave my seat during breaks except to use the bathroom. I made myself invisible—so small that no one would notice I existed.
For two days, it worked.
But on the third day, everything changed.
I was sitting at my desk, flipping through my notebook, trying to focus. My mind kept drifting—it had been doing that a lot lately—when the classroom door opened.
Mr. Fox walked in.
He was our gym teacher. Tall, loud, and endlessly energeti
