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2024-10-29 19:42:56I knew I wouldn’t be able to pull the ‘I’m sick’ game off forever. I managed to stay home one week before mom told me that I had to either get a doctor’s excuse to go back to school or make sure that I’m in attendance Monday morning.
Here it was, almost seven days after I found out what Ethan had done. How everything about us was just a lie. How I was now the laughing stock of probably the entire school or at least the soccer team.
I felt used.
I felt abused.
And I felt a pain that I never felt in my life before. One that hurt so bad that I didn’t think I was going to be able to make it through another day, it was like I’d lost my best friend and my lover all at once.
Well, I sort of did. Ethan and I had become both of those. He was my lover, the only one that I ever had. And I felt closer to him than I did my friends, even Tara and Rynae.
Speaking of my friends, they called every day wondering
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“Are you sure? Don’t be lying to me, Hope.” I couldn’t believe it when Hope got off the phone with Morgan, and she said that Morgan had told her that we could come over.“Oh my, God, Ethan, let’s go. She wants to see us.” Hope grabbed her hoodie and pulled my hand towards the door. “Grandma, we’ll be back. We’re going to Morgan’s house.” Hope rushed out the door before our grandmother could respond.I didn’t know if I was going to get us there alive. My hands shook the whole time I drove Hope and me to Morgan’s. I kept replaying everything in my head that I wanted to tell her.I’m sorry.I never told anyone about our times together.I never took the money.I love you.The question was, would she listen to me?“C’mon, Ethan, hurry up.” Hope’s push on my shoulder brought me out of t
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“Ethan, come on,” Hope yelled through the bedroom door for the millionth time.I’d changed my shirt once again. Okay, maybe I was as bad as a girl when it came to getting ready. I already had five discarded outfits laying on the floor.But, this night was different. I could feel it.Or at least I prayed that it would be.Even after our separation, I never stopped loving Morgan. I couldn’t imagine spending my days and nights with anyone but her. I wanted to spend every waking and sleeping moment with her by my side.A loud rap on the door once again brought me out of my fantasy world.‘What the fuck was wrong with me? I really needed to get my shit together. I was acting like a middle school boy in love for the first time.But it felt so good and so right.’I brushed my hand through my hair once more, dabbed on some cologne, and opened the door just as Hope was about to bang
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Ethan and I sat in the parking lot for almost an hour. We talked about everything and anything. Even though I really didn’t want to, I just didn’t want to relieve what had happened and wanted to try and move on, but I got to hear Ethan’s side of the story.He started at the beginning of the year before he got to know me and how his past captains of the soccer team had made him the designated person for ‘the challenge.’ I happened to be Clarissa’s little sister, Matt had wanted to take one last jab at her, and I had to suffer the consequences of his desire to torture.It seemed Matt and Ethan never got along, even when they played on the same team. He was as big of a bully as he still was now.Ethan revealed that he was never a fan of the shit that they did to girls, but never gave it a second thought because it never affected him directly.No matter the circumstance, it was still so wrong to do to any girl.Fortu
