Expel
“Long black sheets of torrential promise stretch out overhead, ready to pronounce their fury.
Afterschool, I race over to the bowling alley, still hopped up on adrenaline after Chloe’s remark. The thought of her speaking with Gage shreds my heart to ribbons. It elicits a groan wrenched from the deepest part of me just thinking about him filling her ear with his velvet voice—if it’s true at all. I’ve learned my lesson. Trust Chloe and my entire world blows apart.
In the bowling alley I find Brielle on her phone with her feet up on the table, head back, and laughing.
I make my way into the kitchen on the lookout for Gage. My heart pumps like a horse at the gate, bucking and jumping with the anticipation of seeing him, but he’s not here. Instead, an older woman, a part of Logan’s regular staff approaches me.
“My check didn’t clear,” she grunts, her face splotched unnaturally as if she had given herself a raspberry facial. “You need to talk to your boyfriend because if this goes on another... week, he’s going to lose the entire crew.”MoreLess
Afterschool, I race over to the bowling alley, still hopped up on adrenaline after Chloe’s remark. The thought of her speaking with Gage shreds my heart to ribbons. It elicits a groan wrenched from the deepest part of me just thinking about him filling her ear with his velvet voice—if it’s true at all. I’ve learned my lesson. Trust Chloe and my entire world blows apart.
In the bowling alley I find Brielle on her phone with her feet up on the table, head back, and laughing.
I make my way into the kitchen on the lookout for Gage. My heart pumps like a horse at the gate, bucking and jumping with the anticipation of seeing him, but he’s not here. Instead, an older woman, a part of Logan’s regular staff approaches me.
“My check didn’t clear,” she grunts, her face splotched unnaturally as if she had given herself a raspberry facial. “You need to talk to your boyfriend because if this goes on another... week, he’s going to lose the entire crew.”MoreLess
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