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I SLAPPED HIM

Author: Ray Nhedicta
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-20 01:47:45

Chapter 9

AURELIA

I slapped him.

The thought kept looping through my head like a broken record as I stumbled out of the elevator, through the library lobby, out into the late afternoon sun that felt too bright, too harsh against my tear-stained face.

I slapped him.

My hand was still tingling from the impact, nerves firing with phantom electricity. I could still feel the connection, the way his skin had felt under my palm, warm and solid and real.

The sharp crack that had echoed through the empty fifth floor still rang in my ears, louder than my own heartbeat.

I'd hit someone. I'd actually put my hands on another person in anger.

The realization made my stomach twist. Made bile rise in my throat.

I never hit anyone.

Not when Victoria shoved me into lockers so hard I saw stars, not when her friends poured juice on my lunch tray while the entire cafeteria watched and laughed.

Not when they held me down in the bathroom and cut my hair with craft scissors while I begged them to stop, m
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