Page 69 of The Hallows Boys

I take a mini step backwards, my back hitting the locker, just in case she’s the punching type. “I just think we all deserve to be with someone who loves us.”

Her face flushes. “Hedoeslove me, not that it’s any of your business.”

“So why didn’t he pick you for the games?” My eyebrow quirks.

I know I’ve fucked up the moment her fists ball at her sides, and then she charges me. My brain tells me to duck, but my muscles are too slow to act, and her fist flies into my jaw. My head turns to the side, and I slam into the lockers.

She doesn’t hit me again, just steps into my face to spit her next words at me like venom. “Stay the fuck away from Vinny.”

Her eyes are wild when I meet her gaze, and I press my lips together so I don’t spew anymore unnecessary words. She looks at me as if I’m the scum of the earth, then turns and walks away without another word.

I’ve never been in a physical fight before, but my blood is rushing through me at speeds it never has. I almost want to punch her back, but I don’t.

All hopes that I might ever fit in with my new squad fly out the window as each girl gives me their attention. They all have dirty looks on their faces, telling me that they’re loyal to their captain. I’ll need to fix this somehow.

ChapterTwenty-Eight

SAGE

Itrace my fingers over the faces of my mother and father, trying to fit the image of them I have in my mind with the image of them in my hand. I can’t make it make sense. No matter how much I try, I just can’t see these two people as the same two people that raised me. The two lives my parents lived don’t align. It seems as if they completely reinvented themselves once they left Blackmore.

My uncle too, I guess.

I wish I had the courage to call him back, to ask him about my parents and this creepy town.Our town.My uncle is a Blackmore as well and decided to leave alongside my parents. Why?

How do three people just up and leave everything they know, their family, their legacy, and never look back again?

What happened in this town that led to the drastic decision they made?

“Sage!” Gran calls out. “Juliet is here!” I tuck the photo of my mother with the Hallows Boys under my mattress once again, trying to leave the questions I have wandering around inside of me with it as I make my way to my bedroom door.

After a boring rest of the school week, I’m looking forward to my first ever girls’ night with Juliet.

Right on time for me to open my door, Juliet is stomping up the last few stairs and grinning at me.

“Hey!” I smile at her, opening my bedroom door wide to welcome her in. I close the door behind her, then follow her into my room and sit cross-legged on my bed. “How are you?”

She sighs, dropping her bag on the floor and then joining me on my bed. “So ready for a girls’ night.”

I nod. “Me too, it’s been such a long week. What should we do first? Movie?”

She narrows her eyes. “I want to know about the Hallows Games.”

I arch my brows. “The Hallows Games?”

She laughs, leaning back on her elbow. “Okay, little miss secrets. You can stop playing dumb. Everyone knows they chose you.”

I giggle, leaning on my headboard. “Yeah. They did.” I look at her with a cautious gaze, unsure how she’s feeling or what she’s thinking.

“Rumor has it that you’re still trying to continue something with the Hallows Boys, which is why Rachel punched you in the face.” She eyes my jaw, which is blossoming with green and purple, and laughs.

I rub my jaw, then roll my eyes. “All I did waswaveat Vinny, and anyways, she barely clipped me! I just spoke some stone-cold truth to her, not my fault she didn’t like it.”

“What happened during the games, Sage?” she asks, her eyes curious.

I sigh, rubbing my eyes. “What do you want to know?”

She rolls to her side, holding her head up on her hand so she can look at me. I didn’t want to tell anyone about the games, not only because of the depraved and twisted things we did, but also because these are my memories with the guys, and they seem a little too sacred to share with anyone. But, if clearing things up with my one and only friend is what I need to do, then I will.

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