(Jessie’s POV)
Poor Troy just looked at us all with confusion. Which made me sigh as I shot Nick a glare and said, “What my socially graceful friend here is trying to politely ask is, what do you think's going on and why would you want to get involved?”
Troy nodded as he said, “Ohhhh. Well, it’s like this… I’m sure you remember back in school that Mason and I were friends, right?” I nodded, so he went on, “Well, the thing is.. Mason was pretty much my only real friend back then. I know people thought he just let me hang around because he felt sorry for me, but that wasn’t true. We would talk and he was the only one who ever listened…
…He cared about how I felt and whether or not I was being bullied. He would defend me, even against his other friends. I never did understand what his mal
