He called me fat....I stole his uncle のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 161 - チャプター 170

Aurora.By the sixth day, people had already started moving out of my way.I noticed it while crossing the courtyard toward the main quad. It wasn’t dramatic, no one dove into traffic to avoid me, but the shift was unmistakable. After a lifetime of being invisible or avoided for entirely different reasons, the change stood out sharply.A group of first-years spotted me approaching and quietly stepped aside. Two girls lowered their voices as I passed. Behind me, someone whispered, “That’s her.” A grin tried to fight its way onto my face. I refused to let it win. This whole reputation was built on a ridiculous lie involving two suspiciously cooperative twins and one strategically placed backpack. Yet somehow, it was working. The realization should have bothered me more than it did. Instead, I found myself walking a little taller, which was probably a problem.I was halfway across the courtyard when I spotted her—the girl from the other day, the one who had introduced my face to a wall.

Aurora.The next morning should have felt like a victory.For nearly a week, Alec and Maxwell had been everywhere in my classes, outside my classes, walking beside me across campus, appearing out of thin air whenever I least expected them. It had been irritating. Exhausting. Completely unreasonable.Yesterday, I finally took action. I told them to leave me alone.So when I arrived on campus and neither of them appeared, the silence should have been a relief. Instead, it felt... off. Suspiciously disappointing.I noticed it during my first class. Not because I missed them, that would have been ridiculous, but because every time the door opened, my eyes flicked toward it. By the third glance, I was annoyed with myself. By the sixth, I was annoyed with the entire world. The student who finally walked in wasn’t Alec. He wasn’t carrying a book. And somehow that felt personally offensive.When class ended, I packed my bag and stepped into the hallway. No Maxwell. No Alec. No suspiciously w

Aurora.Ethan was still on his feet when I reached him.Barely.He tried to straighten the moment he saw me, like he hadn’t just been thrown around a polished marble floor in front of half the university.“I’m fine,” he said immediately.“You are not fine,” I replied.He let out a short breath that might have been a laugh if his mouth didn’t look split at the corner. “I’ve had worse.”“That’s not comforting.”“It’s honest.”That made me pause for half a second. He was trying too hard to act as if nothing had happened. Like it was just another awkward social situation and not… whatever that was.People around us were already dispersing. Talking. Laughing again. As if the center of the room hadn’t just been turned into a battlefield.That bothered me more than anything.Ethan followed my gaze and shrugged. “Don’t think about it too much.”“I think I should.”“You shouldn’t,” he said lightly. “Trust me.”I frowned. “You didn’t have to do that.”“I know.”That was all he said.Then he adde

Aurora.The twins were insane.That was the only conclusion I could settle on as I walked up the front steps, keys cool and heavy in my palm.I unlocked the door and stepped into the dark entryway, the familiar creak of the hinges echoing too loudly in the quiet house. Their words refused to leave me alone, looping endlessly in my head like a song I couldn’t turn off.We like you.We’d like you to be our girlfriend.Even now, standing in the shadowed hallway with the faint smell of stale air and old carpet around me, the confession sounded absurd. Brothers—actual brothers—casually proposing to share the same girl as if it were the most reasonable thing in the world. And somehow, to them, the strangeness wasn’t the sharing. It was that I might say no.I dropped my bag onto the floor with a soft thud and rubbed my arms, trying to shake off the lingering tension from the car. Alec’s quiet certainty. Maxwell’s calm confidence. The way they had looked at me when they said they’d wait for

Aurora.The whispers started before I even reached my locker.At first, I thought I was imagining it—paranoid after the morning’s disaster. But the stares followed me down the hallway. Phones are angled just a little too obviously. A cluster of girls near the water fountain stopped talking the second I passed, then burst into hushed giggles.By the second period, it was everywhere.Someone had snapped a picture. The kiss. My hand fisted in Alec’s shirt, our mouths pressed together in the middle of the courtyard like some dramatic scene from a bad romance. It was already circulating through the school’s group chats, blurry but unmistakable. Did you see Aurora and one of the Wolfe twins?She went straight for it.Thought she was too good for anyone.I kept my head down, earbuds in even though no music played. Every time I caught someone looking, heat crawled up my neck. The bruise on my cheek suddenly felt exposed again, no matter how much concealer I’d layered on.I ignored the twins