I sat in the classroom, absentmindedly twirling a pen between my fingers. Trevor’s words went on endlessly in my head.
"You can’t trust anyone. Especially not Rachel."
His voice, the certainty in it, kept playing over and over. It pulled at me, making it impossible to focus on the lesson.
Rachel? He couldn’t be serious. I glanced over at her, sitting a few seats away with her usual warm smile on her face as she waved at me. There was no way she could betray me—Rachel had been by my side for as long as I could remember. She had been there during my hardest moments. She always defended me.
I tried to push Trevor’s warning out of my mind, but his words wouldn’t leave me alone.
After class ended, Rachel came over to me “Hey, Bri, you okay? You’ve been kind of spaced out today.”
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