I WAS A COWARD. I SHOULD have talked to my parents the next day. After all, it was Sunday. Go to church, eat a nice meal, have it out with my mom and dad. You know, normal Sunday afternoon activities. Well, I made it to church, but I went to the early service, the one my family didn’t go to. Thirty seconds after the end of the closing prayer, I ended up confessing the whole sordid story to Devotion and Chris. My best friend had an instinct when it came to something going wrong in my life.
Dev was constantly kept busy.
She huffed and looked ready to commit murder throughout my ordeal with Brad. Chris looked torn between sympathy for me and worry at Devotion’s fierce expression.
“I can’t believe you let them do this to you,” she said.
“What do you mean? I haven’t had much choice in all t
