• Chapter 9 • I mentally kicked myself for being so pathetic. But years of feelings don't just vanish overnight. It would be a slow, painful detox.
• Mom, seming the tension, stood up: "Ill give you two sspace, Going to grab sfood from the cafeteria." • Sid politely tried to decline but eventually agreed to stay for dinner. Once we were alone in the hospital room, I looked up at him with a forced smile: "Thanks for coming, Sid." • Sid sat beside the bed, quiet for a moment before saying softly: "You don't have to pretend with me, Phoebe." • "You don't need to smile if you don't feel like it. It's okay." • I felt unexpectedly awkward.
⚫ I reached for my phone, needing a distraction.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt• Sid gently touched my wrist, his eyes concerned: "Maybe don't check that right now. It might be · ⚫ better to wait..." • But after our hands touched, he quickly pulled back. His ears turning visibly pink. "Sorry, I didn't mean to... I just was worried about..." • I unlocked my phone anyway, immediately bombarded with notifications.
• Several concerned classmates and friends had sent messages.
· • I replied to each one until I saw a message from Mason, one of Zephyr's sketchy friends: • Mason: [So what's your rate? $200/hr? Or you giving discounts now that everyone knows?] · ⚫ I responded with a question mark, completely bewildered.
• His replies cinstantly: • Mason: [Cut the innocent act, babe] • 12:47 • The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights • 35.9% • • Chapter 9 • Mason: [DiscordScreenshot.jpg] • Mason: [The school slut who got railed so hard she passed out in the boys bathroom? That's prior • entertainment] • Mason: [The whole school's talking about it, might as well cash in, right?] • Mason: [What's the deal? Zephyr gets all the fun but you won't share with his boys?] • My hands shook violently as I opened the screenshot.
• It showed a Discord post titled: • [HOLY SHIT! Phoebe Johnson caught passed out in the boys' bathroom looking like she just finished • shooting a porno!] • The post described in awful detail how I was carried out of the boys' bathroom to the marse's office • It included a secretly taken photo that madewant to disappear forever.
• In the picture, I was unconscious, face flushed, lips visibly swollen from Zephyr's forceful kiss.
• Sweat from my fever had soaked through my blouse, making it cling to my body in a way that • looked intentionally provocative.
My clothes were disheveled from Zephyr's aggressive grabbing.
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What had actually been a terrifying moment of standing up to my before collapsing of myabuser before collapsing from illness was being twisted into something vile and degrading. I dropped the phone like it had burned me, a strangled sound escaping my throat.
The room started spinning again.
After everything-after all the humiliation and betrayal this was how my deputation would end? This was what people would remember about me? "Phoebe?" Sid's worried voice seemed far away.
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