Chapter 29

He’s not there in the morning.

He’s at school though.

He’s waiting for me.

He isn’t smiling.

He asks me where I got my black eye.

He says he’s being serious.

I don’t say anything.

I look down.

He asks if it was my mom.

I say I fell on the floor.

He doesn’t believe me.

But he pretends he does.

He wraps an arm around me.

It feels normal.

But I’m not his friend.

He’s just mine.