You belong to me

Chapter 38

Jasmine's POV

Something had changed with Hardin since that fight with Lorenzo and I knew it.

I could feel it in the way he looked at me that night when I came out of his father's office after telling him about what had happened because they had called from the school about the incident, a situation that I wanted to avoid. It was exactly the way he used to in the beginning, when my mother and I first moved here.

No, it was worse.

I noticed it the next day when the principal had called all three of us to his office and the disciplinary committee had asked to hear our sides of the story and Hardin hadn't said one word, only asking what his punishment would be.

Lorenzo had gotten one week suspension, with three days out of that week in school, to be served working at different places according to the discretion of the school.

Hardin's was worse. And by worse, I meant infinitely worse. And it was not the fact that he was going to be at home for one week. It was that for that