Page 52 of My Brother's Best Friend

“Watch it, slut,” Tiffany said.

Sandra smirked down at me and kicked one of my books down the hall with her heel. “A desperate little slut too.”

They laughed together and walked off into another hallway, leaving me scrambling to pick up my books. After gathering my belongings, I stood and saw everyone staring. At me. Nobody pulled their gaze away, not even when I made eye contact with them.

“Maddie!” Vera shouted, rushing down the hallway toward me with Piper.

“What’s going on? Why’s everyone staring at me?” I asked stupidly.

Vera grabbed my hand and tugged me to my locker, shoving people out of the way, which was very unlike Vera unless something was terribly wrong. It only meant that … something bad had happened between the time I had gone to sleep last night and this morning.

“Have you even been on social media today?” she asked me.

I furrowed my brow. “No. Why?”

Vera whipped out her phone and thrust it in front of my face.

My eyes widened. “Oh. My. God.”

On her screen was a video. Of Alec and me. Friday night. In the freaking locker room!

“No.” I shook my head. “Tell me it’s not true.”

Tears welled up in my eyes. The videos were posted from Alec’s account. Worst of all was his caption?—

Finally snagged my best friend’s little sister

—which tipped me over the edge and made me a sobbing mess.

“He told me that nobody was watching us!” I said, placing a hand over my mouth to muffle my cries.

I hated being the center of attention, and now, everyone was staring at me with their judgmental eyes.

“We’ll figure this out, Maddie,” Piper said, rubbing my shoulder.

“He lied to me!” I cried because it was the only logical reason.

Spencer had … posted videos of us—of me—that I hadn’t even known that he had taken. He had sent them in a mass email to every single person at Redwood Academy a year ago, and now, this was happening again.

After I’d trusted Alec.

And part of me still did, but … h-how?

Vera flared her nostrils and crossed her arms. “I’ll get Blaise to cut off his balls.”

Suddenly, the crowd parted for Alec, who hurried into the hallway. He made eye contact with me, eyes filled with sorrow. Unable to hold my anger back, I rushed toward him and slammed my hands into his chest.

“How dare you!” I shoved him. “I told you I wanted to keep it a secret.” Another shove. “And instead, you make me look like a desperate slut!”

Alec took every one of my shoves. “Maddie, stop it. You have it all wrong.”

“No!” I shouted. “You’re a piece of shit. I should’ve never trusted you.”

Part of me knew that he hadn’t done this, that I wasn’t thinking clearly because Spencer was on my mind. I wanted to scream at Spencer for fucking me up, not Alec. Still, right now, I couldn’t tell the difference.

“I swear, I didn’t do it.”

“All the videos are from your account!”

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