CHAPTER FORTY - THE PLAN

Jayla

"I am so proud of how this turned out," Beth says with a proud sigh. "Why don't you let us tell you how we planned this?"

"Planned being heartless and cold?" I ask, my voice holding no emotions which is contradicting the way I am currently feeling.

You know the kind of feeling you get when you know you have been betrayed? The feeling when your stomach is in pains and you feel tremors in your legs. When your heart palpitates and your throat begins to close up. When the entire world seems to have slowed down and you just want to curl up in a corner and cry.

That is how l feel. Just about a thousand times much worse than that. But I have a lot more to listen to. There is more to hear. And there is also more to grieve over.

"Yes, we were heartless, alright. But you were just plain stupid," Tyler says and chuckles followed by a highly unattractive snot by Beth as they both mock me without pity.

"How could you even think l would like you?" he asks, looking at me from up to down with a