I muster up my most pitiful face. “It wasn’t me. I don’t know why he did it.”
He scoffs. “Do I look stupid to you?! Why would he say such things for nothing?!”
I shake my head and control my breathing. “He might have ulterior motives but I swear I don’t have nothing to do with it. I don’t even talk to him while we are in the school.” I state lying through my teeth. “I was sleeping when he came in and when I woke up, he was already there. I was going out when you came in, I swear!”
I lie pathetically, trying to save myself. Call me cruel or disgusting but at this moment no one would understand what it’s like to be at the edge. It’s either save yourself or bear it all. And I want save myself at any cost, be it cowardly. I don’t care.
He walks closer and holds my arms tightly. “Do you thi
