Chapter 40: Love and Lie
On the way home, she was thinking of what Rev said. He was right, she needed to tell Andrew and her friends about what happened. She looked at Andrew who was sitting beside him, holding her hand.
"Babe?" She called.
Andrew was surprised that Nina called him, not by his name but an endearment. He turned to her and sweetly smiled at her.
"I like that. What is it?" He asked.
She was about to tell him when his phone rang. He didn’t answer for a moment but it kept on ringing so she told him to answer it.
"Sorry baby. It’s from my father. One moment." He said then answered the phone.
She sighed and just looked outside the window. She didn’t notice that Andrew was already done talking to his father and was asking her about what she would tell him.
Andrew frowned when Nina didn’t respond. He already noticed that she was quiet during lunch time and he knew something happened. He was just waiting for her to tell him.
Nina didn’t know that Andrew already assigned a security for her. He ordered them to be discreet, he didn’t want her to feel like she was being guarded. It was for her safety. One of the guards reported that she was being bullied so he went back for her. But he saw a man helping her and when he asked what happened, she lied to him.
He didn’t feel angry but he felt sad, he was hurt. He knew she went to the school counselor’s office before the start of second period and he found out that Rev was the new counselor.