Chapter 91

Bakersville High School

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“Are you okay?” Julie asked Emily who was mindlessly picking at her food.

“I am, I'm just not that hungry,” Emily said.

She was lying, but she couldn’t tell Julie the truth and the truth was that she could feel Gabriel beginning to ignore her again. His passing her in the halls had only been the first step and she began to notice that he was doing it more often, but not doing it completely, giving her crumbs of his attention in school so that she couldn’t say he had gone back to how he was before.

She was bothered.

She didn’t know how to feel. Had she counted her luck a bit too early? Had she called it too soon? Had she been too gullible to see that Gabriel was just insuring himself by making sure she was happy so that he still had that shoulder to lean on? Had she been played without even knowing it? She was sad. She was angry. She was confused. She was offended.

She felt herself swaying again in the line between love and hate. She was losing control. She