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until a lie tore my soul apart.
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    Caleb
    I’m still trying to
wrap my head around the fact that Tegan is back in my life. I mean,
she’s not here, but she sent a friend to protect me. And from what
I gathered earlier, she would’ve come here and done it herself. She
was willing to come back here to the town that shunned her in order
to make sure I was safe. Even though they all shunned her because of
me. I can still remember her first day back at school after she
cheated on me.
    “ Well
look at this. The slut decided to show her face today,” Greg told
her. “Did you want more of my dick in your mouth?”
    “ Go
to Hell, you bastard.”
    “ You’re
the one going to Hell, whore,” Delia said.
    Tegan
looked our way then, seeing Dee practically wrapped around me. “Well
at least you got your wish, bitch.”
    “ I
did. Come on, Cal, we have to get to class. Maybe the janitor will
take out the trash while we’re gone.”
    I feel the shame
overtake me again as I think about that day, and the days after
before she left town. I stood by and let them all say those things to
her. I said things to
her. Whether they were true or not doesn’t really matter. I’ve
had years to realize that staying friends with Greg while condemning
her was wrong. Hell, all of what was said and done to her was wrong.
I still did it, though.
    I can’t go back and
change it, but I honestly wish I could. I know I should’ve asked
her for her side of the story because a part of me knows she loved
me. But I was young, and let’s face it, stupid. Hell, I’m still
stupid if the woman walking into my lab is any indication.
    “Who is she?” Dee
asks with a sneer on her face. Why I hooked up with her when I came
home a year ago is beyond me. She’s toxic and evil.
    “This is my mom’s
new assistant, Jade.”
    “Why is she here with
you if she’s your mama’s assistant?”
    “’She’ is right
here and can answer for herself,” Jade says, hopping down from the
counter.
    “Well then, go
ahead.”
    “No.”
    “Excuse me?”
    I see the vein at Dee’s
temple start to throb and I have to fight to hold back my laugh.
She’s not used to being told “no” by anyone. Especially not
someone who works for her family or mine.
    “I said no. I’m not
going to tell you why I’m here. It’s none of your business.”
    “Caleb is for sure my
business. We’re engaged,” she says, flashing the big diamond she
insisted on.
    “I almost feel sorry
for you, Caleb. Almost .”
    “Look, bitch. Maybe
you don’t understand how things work since you’re obviously not
from around here, but the help respects their employers around here.”
    “You’ve definitely
downgraded, dude. Like big time.”
    “Get out.”
    Jade just starts
laughing at her, and I’m kind of in awe. I mean, damn is she good.
She pushed every one of Delia’s buttons in less than five minutes.
Only Tegan was better. I remember what I was thinking of earlier, and
realize that while I can’t make what I did better for her, I can stand up for her friend.
    “You get out, Dee,
and don’t come back until you can act like a decent human being.”
    “Seriously?”
    “Yeah. I’m over
this mean girl act you’ve been playing since high school. It got
old then, and it’s disgusting now.”
    “You weren’t
disgusted when you were making love to me last night.”
    “Screwing, Dee. I
screwed you. There was no love involved last night, or any other
night for that matter. We both know it.”
    “Then why are you
marrying me?”
    “You know.”
    “Say it,” she
screeches, looking more than a little crazed. I’ve gone this far,
though, so why not go all the way.
    “Because you’re
nothing like her .”
    She lunges for me, but
Jade steps in and tosses her back. Literally fucking tosses her
backwards. Dee’s eyes are as wide as mine before she storms out.
    “Damn, Jade. That
was…just, damn.”
    “It was honestly my
pleasure. She was mean to Teeg, wasn’t