“There were a ton of other people,” I say.
“Yet you were the one watching my laptop.”
“Was I?” I tilt my head and raise a brow. “Or did you just tell me to?”
I’m not his lapdog he can just order around.
“We weren’t the only ones there,” I say.
“You’re the only one to hate me enough to send that picture to the whole goddamn school.” Nathan raises his fist at me. “You motherf—”
“Enough.”
Blaine’s voice makes even Nathan back off.
Good.
I’m not about to get pummeled in the face for his mistakes.
“I won’t allow you to soil this ground with blood,” Blaine says with a sly smile. “You’re all better than that. C’mon. You were lovers once, right?”
A long time ago, maybe. And I really tried to be friends with him, but he wouldn’t let me.
“True,” Milo muses.
“Shut up,” Nathan quips.
“Your boy Caleb over here decided to put some very private pictures of Lana and us on the group chat,” Kai says to Blaine.
What? That’s bullshit!
“I did not,” I say. “And I keep telling them that, but they refuse to believe me.”
Blaine steps out of the house too.
“Interesting.” He stops right in front of Nathan even though he’s still got his hands on my collar. “Caleb, you’ll fix this.”
My jaw drops. “What? But I didn’t do shi—”
Blaine lifts his finger. “Just do it.”
“How is he gonna fix this?” Nathan barks. “Everyone’s already seen the picture. Fuck knows the entire internet by now.”
“Turn it into a story.” Blaine waves his hand around. “Make her look like a victim.”
“What … you mean turn us into predators?” Kai narrows his eyes and folds his arms. “You think I’m going to agree to that?”
“Your girlfriend must hate you right now, no?” Blaine retorts.
“Then I guess this is the only chance you’ve got to make it right.”
“Um … is everyone forgetting the dead body in the picture?”
Milo pulls out his phone to show us the lewd picture they took of her. It is not something I wanted to see today, but I guess I won’t be able to get that out of my retina.
Great.
Kai snatches the phone out of his hand. “Great job, Milo. Now even more people saw it.”