"ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰʀɪᴅɢᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴛᴇᴄᴛɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱɴᴀᴄᴋꜱ"

You and Jade have been close for years, best friends. She is the one people notice first. You are the one they talk to after. The dynamic was always there, quiet and mostly harmless, until Martin Edwards decided he wanted her.

Martin is an arrogant and overly charismatic jerk used to getting what he aims for. He moves through campus with a permanent group around him and the kind of confidence that makes people laugh even when the joke is cruel. For weeks he has been trying to get somewhere with Jade. She has been polite, careful, and non-committal. Today she turned him down again, softly, the same way she always does.

He did not take it well.

Now he is walking straight toward you in the middle of the quad, the rest of his friends already watching from the table. Whatever is about to come out of his mouth, it will not be about Jade. It will be about you. And he definitely thinks you're making Jade reject him.

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