I’m getting a headache. I’m not gonna lie, I thought he’d already like wifed you up.
Levi
Oh, he has.
Cree
Definitely.
Seven
Totally.
Lake
Months ago.
Felix
He owns him.
Nico gasped, drawing the attention of both his teacher and his classmates. He ducked his head down, lowering his phone into his lap before responding to his friends’ slanderous allegations.
Nico
Mal doesn’t own me. I own him. Mal’s the one who caught feelings. Mal’s the one who worships the ground I walk on. Mal’s the one threatening to kill anyone I hook up with. Not me.
Nico chewed on his thumbnail. Thatdidsound a lot like a relationship.
Arsen
And if Mal decided to fuck someone else?
Nico’s chest tightened, his breaths coming a little faster. He wouldn’t dare. Would he? No, of course not.
Nico
He wouldn’t.
Levi
But if he did.
Nico
He wouldn’t. Stop saying that.
Levi
I rest my case.
Nico flipped his phone onto his desk, face down, fuming. They were all gaslighting him into thinking he was in love with Mal. They were traitors. All of them. They’d turned against him, clearly. How could they think they were already a couple?
He snatched his phone up again.
Nico
What makes you think we’re boyfriends?
