Chapter 96: JARED

It feels like we'd barely got settled in here, before all hell broke loose. I didn't even really have my bearings as yet, so to speak. There was too much going on too fast, and that was before my sister got herself almost killed and the girl I suspected of having something to do with it ended up in the hospital.

I was just starting to relax my guard a little, testing my feet in unchartered waters, and now this. I looked down at the phone in my hand.

If I make this call it's gonna change a lot of things, so I had to be sure. The reason for my hesitance was so dumb though, but still I had to be sure.

Back in my last school it had been harder, but here in a new place with no past judgments to live down, it felt like it was okay.

That's what was bothering me though; the fact that I even had to think like that. I should be able to love who I want to love without having to worry about living down a stigma. And I shouldn't be such a prick that I'd let it stop me before.

But to be fair sh