holding the diary shut. The live stream was still broadcasti

ce laced with panic. "That' s just more of hi

he opened the book

ars ago, when we were just

mber

ped her pencil and we both reached for it at the same time. Our hands touched. I felt it all the way in my toes. I hope I didn

remembered that day. She remembered th

ed again, but they

bullies:

: That doesn' t s

e' s making it u

me, with us. Our first date at the cheap movie theater. The time I bought her flowers with my entire week' s all

f a monster. This was the boy

cracking. "He wrote all that to manip

had planted long ago, and its roots ran deep. She started flipping faster, looking for

the victim. That she was right

try from senior year. He

sob. She held the diary up to the cam

y

d him to knock it off. Liam got mad. He took a swing at me. I just... I pushed him back. Harder than I meant to. He fell. Everyone saw. Now they' re al

t read them all out loud. She st

a, to the world, to herself.

looking at her with an express

hick with renewed loyalty. "He lied and made you the vict

h money. She skipped right over the context, the truth. She found the

easily swayed, t

bullies:

ways a violent psycho! Thank

rn him. Burn the

of doubt was extinguished, replaced by t

e had found her

wasn' t finish