“I exhaled heavily. “It wasn’t meant to be. Anyway, I’m sorry. Thanks for being so nice to me. I loved going to the concert with you, and I wish we could have been friends longer.”
“We’re not friends anymore?” she asked in a hurt voice.
“I...thought that you wouldn’t want to be,” I replied hesitantly.
“Because of Josh?” she scoffed. “I’m not going to let him ruin anything for me. He’s not worth it.”
I was delighted and grateful that she still wanted to be friends with me, but I was stunned when Tyler did. “Do you know Krav Maga?” he asked me one day in the hallway at school.
“Uh, isn’t that some kind of martial arts?” I responded as I wondered what he was up to, and if Mason had sent him to bully me.
“It’s a combination of fighting techniques. My brother teaches classes in it
