Chapter Seventy One

JADE'S POV

It's crazy how these students get when any one of the people they put on a fucking pedestal does or says something, even if it's not worth paying thought to.

This morning, Liz and her gang had decided I wasn't worth any association with the rest of the school, embarrassed me in front of everyone and they had all laughed and avoided them.

And hours later, Caden had shown up out of nowhere, broken up with Liz and made me his girlfriend without giving me a choice, and now, they all flock to me, offering me smiles and unsolicited warm hugs and invites to parties.

In a blink, everything changed and I found myself hauled into some kind of limelight, like a deer caught in headlights and Liz, has somehow become the school's outcast.

It's sad to watch how lonely she's become in less than a day, living the life of the nobody's and outcasts she hates so much.

And it's scary imagining the things she might do to me now that she has a real, tangible reason to hurt me.

A slight shudder go