Chapter 42

NOTE: It’s all a work of fiction; it would be advisable to skip it. Trigger warnings ahead, including suicide and toxic thoughts.

Fredericks POV

A picture popped up on my screen. It was sent by an anonymous person, and it had Joan and me in it—one from my last visit to school—and it had both of us kissing. Damn it, who could it be? No one knew about our relationship. Someone out there now has a clip and is threatening to use it against us.

“Wait for me!” Joan yelled from behind while she ran after me, “Stay back inside; don’t come out!” I said that to her, but she didn’t stop. The anonymous sender had requested that I come out of the building, which I did in hopes that he would be there, but there was no one there.

Confusion settled in my mind at once. Someone was playing mind games with me, and it worked because my heart was rising and my mind had gone far and wide. Who might want to tease me this badly? Who could be in the hallway that day? Whoever it was, I swore not to let the pe