chapter 6

“What happened to you back there?” Chloe and Zoe said. After school, that was the only time they saw me since Xavier tried to blow my eardrums earlier. I felt a bit bad that I tried to avoid them.

“What happened earlier?” I asked them, playing stupid.

“Don’t play dumb. You were yelling and gripping your head and it was scary, Winter.” I stared at them for a while still acting confused, then I finally parted my lips in realization.

“Oh, uh, it was just a minor headache. It happens all the time.” I said, hoping that they would buy it, but they didn’t. They looked at me with their arms crossed over their chests like I was telling them a lie, which I was.

My life is becoming increasingly difficult now that I have met Xavier. Couldn’t they just buy it and allow us to move over with our lives? I wanted to tell them so badly, but I couldn’t imagine what Xavier will do to me next if I did. “Why am I being looked at like that?” I asked, shaking my head while smiling. It still didn’t look like t