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I found myself staring at Jace's hand, stretched out toward me, feeling completely frozen. I couldn't even muster the fake smile I knew he probably wanted to see. His fingers were hovering, like some sort of ridiculous peace offering, but all I could think about, what I could feel were the memories he pretended didn't matter anymore.
Like the times they had me cornered by my locker, the way Vanessa dumped a smoothie all over me in sophomore year while Jace filmed it, or that time they pushed me into the pool, a moment that still made me wake up in a cold sweat.
Adrien's condescending smirk, Liam's taunts, Kris's gossip, Shannon's cruel remarks, Vanessa's need to humiliate me every chance she got… they all loomed over me like a pack of wolves eyeing their prey. And now, they were suddenly acting all nice, throwing around fake apologies and empty kindness like it could wipe away years of humiliation.
