I Stressed for Months to Be With Them, They Were Never Planning to Be With Me novel · Chapter 9 of 16
Chapter 9: Corner Booth
Malik started after him.
I caught his sleeve.
"Don't. It's what they want."
"Hallie."
"Let them have a picture. We have the finals."
He stood there breathing hard, watching the stairwell door swing shut.
Then he looked down at me.
"You're sure?"
"No," I said. "But kiss me again anyway."
He did.
By the next morning, the picture was everywhere.
It went up on an anonymous account called WestmereTea, with a blurry crop that made the van look like a hotel room door.
"Bellgrave's Cinderella sleeps her way to the Keystone finals. Her 'partner' runs the lab. Guess who really built the app?"
By noon it had four thousand shares.
The comments were worse.
"The guy built it, she just draws cute birds lol."
"Isn't this the girl who stole that award in Ohio?"
"Imagine trying this hard."
Kelsey found me in the lab bathroom, sitting on the closed toilet lid with my phone.
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