LOOM OF THORNS
I expected him to walk over, to tell the crowd to back off, to speak up for me, to explain that I had simply helped a fellow student in need.
Instead, Josh looked right through me. He turned back to his friends, laughing at a joke one of them made, completely ignoring the girl who had stitched his skin and fed him her last plate of rice.
"So, is it true?" a voice shrilled. It was Amanda, a girl known more for her expensive weaves and loud gossip than her grades. She blocked my path, holding up her phone. "The Holy Queen of Clothing and Textile has been busy with the King of NUAT? Late at night in the lab? My source says you two were 'very close'."
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