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Chapter Eighty — Ava’s POV

Author: Gracie.E
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-24 20:43:40

High school runs on drama.

Some people feed off it. Some people drown in it.

And then there’s me.

I watch it. Catalog it. Keep score.

Not because I enjoy it, but because when the whispers get ugly, I need to know how close they are to hurting the people I care about.

Which is why this week, I’d been listening harder than usual.

Because the rumor du jour?

Lila and Jason.

It was everywhere. At the lockers, in classrooms, between bites of cereal in the cafeteria. Everyone had an opinion, and none of them were kind.

“She’s just a stand-in until he gets bored.”

“Not even his type.”

“She’ll never keep up.”

I wanted to scream at all of them. I wanted to yell that Lila wasn’t some temporary placeholder in anyone’s story. She was Lila — smart, funny, stubborn as hell, braver than she gave herself credit for.

But I kept my mouth shut. Because high school doesn’t care about truth. It only cares about spectacle.

And Jason was feeding it like gasoline on a bonfire.

I was there, of course, when it
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