Without a word, he turned and walked out, the laughter following him all the way. He felt as if the walls were closing in around him, the weight of betrayal too heavy to bear. Lucas, of course, didn’t know it yet, but one day he would be able to pay her back tenfold.
As he went home, a familiar feeling of hopelessness settled in, but alongside it, there was also something else. Anger. Lucas felt angry at the cruelty of his peers. How could they even be so cruel? But he was not just angry at them, he was also angry at himself for allowing them to hurt him. That night, Lucas sat alone in his room, staring at his reflection.