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Chapter 173

Author: Dea B
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Noah

By the time the final bell rang, all I wanted was silence.

Not because the day was hard academically — I couldn’t even remember what half my teachers said — but because the whispers were getting under my skin in a way that made me want to break lockers.

Jessa and I walked out of the cafeteria together — not holding hands, but close enough that people noticed.

Which, apparently, was a crisis.

I heard:

“Why her?”

“He can do better.”

“She’s not even that pretty.”

“She doesn’t wear makeup.”

“Dude, he’s desperate.”

Every whispered word felt like it hit me directly, even though the comments were about her.

And she heard them too.

I could see it in the way her shoulders tensed… relaxed… then tensed again.

She was trying so damn hard not to let it show.

I hated that for her.

I hated that for me.

But mostly?

I hated that people seemed to think they had some say in who I wanted.

Spoiler:

They didn’t.

⸻

Practice rolled around, and the locker room felt loud enough to crack concrete.

Jackson
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