I feel awful the entire day. I want to cry, and I don’t even understand why. We didn’t get into trouble, thanks to Taylor’s lie. It’s also not the first time I see Taylor and Drake extort money from younger classmates. But this time feels different. It feels awful…
I sigh again, going out of Nina’s car. Not even our shopping session cheered me up.
“Can you stop looking so gloomy? It’s annoying,” Nina tells me, getting out as well.
“Easy to say…” I grumble. We walk to the bowling place, where we will meet Drake and Taylor before dinner. They are already playing and having fun. We join them, but I’m not in the mood to play. They haven’t finished their match, and Nina takes Drake’s turn to play, while he complains that she will flunk his score. I sit on the seats nearby, with Addison. She
