Chapter 28

~Valeria~

If there was a world record for how fast someone’s life could go to hell thrice in a row, I was pretty sure I’d just broken it.

I thought everyone went back to paying attention at Amanda but she doubled her game and it made it even worst with the scandals.

School had become a torture ground and I dreaded the weekdays badly.

Even teachers looked at me with disgust and made snide comments about my grades dropping low.

“If you focused more on school than boys, you wouldn’t have an F on your maths test.” Mr. Collins said as I approached him in his office about my scores.

Right there, my breathing went shallow and I was close to passing out from the drum of insults loaded on me.

I expected them to know better. I wasn’t skipping classes to make out under the bleachers. I was suffocating under the pressure of deadlines, assignments and soul crushing comments and drags on my social media.

But it didn’t matter to them to stop and think for a second that I was the victim here.

Swallow