Phil's POV
Life without Theodore Blackwell is . . . well, I guess he’s still here.
Maybe that’s worse.
Seeing him every day during lunch, sixth period, seventh period.
He’s ghosting me, avoiding me like the plague, and Diana—she has questions.
“What is going on?” she demanded after the third day of Theo sitting in the back of the class with a few other jocks, clowning around. So far today, he’d winked at the teacher and told a crude joke that made her visibly flustered. He’s being . . . an ass.
And he’d said “moo” to Diana.
She asked me what that meant and I . . . I thought about punching him. Knowing Theo, he’d rock my s**t, send me to the hospital—though maybe not because even if the dynamic between us has changed, my mother’s wrath has not. Not to ment
