Faultless – Marie Socray

Alex stuffed his hands into his pockets and shifted his awkward stance. “Dropping the class.” “Eating too fast?” I echoed, the corner of my lip turning upward. “Don’t do that. It might give you heartburn.” His eyebrows raised in pure confusion. “Do you see me eating anything right now? I said I’m dropping the class.” “Dropping all that ass? Here? In this classroom? Now?” Lola snickered beside me, while Alex threw his arms out to the side, staring at me with clear incredulity. We only had a few more minutes before the professor arrived to start the lecture, and I was wasting them with jokes.

Well, I wouldn’t call it wasting because my jokes were something to be appreciated. “Are you deaf?” I raised my hands in defense. “I’m just saying what I’m hearing.” “Or you really don’t want to hear what he has to say,” Lola suggested with a raised finger. Scratching my head and scrunching my nose, I told her, “I don’t remember asking you. Hm, weird.” She extended her arm and sent a light punch into my shoulder, muttering a couple of insults under her breath.

I was about to retaliate, but she held her hand before my face like a stop sign and turned to Alex with slight concern. “You’re dropping the class?” His gaze flickered to Lola and then to me, behind them, an emotion I couldn’t quite figure out. It wasn’t discomfort, which is what I expected him to have seeing each other for the first time since that day, but he was anything but uncomfortable.

Then, Alex’s eyes settled on Lola again, and they almost narrowed. Realizing he was staring, he pulled his gaze to the ground, shifting his posture and grinding his teeth. But I caught the clenching of his jaw and the way his shoulders angled to block her from his view.

Subtle, but defensive. I don’t think he knew he was doing it. If I didn’t know any better, I’d call it jealousy. But that would be a projection of me wanting it to be jealousy. Wouldn’t it? “I’m dropping the class,” he eventually said. “I thought it better to let you both know in person since we’re a group.

Were a group.” Lola’s expression fell. “What? You’re leaving us alone?” Alex clicked his tongue on the roof of his mouth. “Unfortunately.” His nose scrunched up cutely, the same way it would all those years ago. It was the whole reason I called him bunny in the first place. It used to be my telltale sign that something was bothering him.

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Editing by Ebb and Flow editing OceanofPDF.com CONTENT WARNING This book contains a depiction of a seizure, controlling and emotionally manipulative parents, a past house fire, serious injury, hospitalization, coma, brief mention of heart disease, parental illness and death, and themes of grief and emotional distress. OceanofPDF.com For those who loved a best friend and lost them anyway. OceanofPDF.com PLAYLIST Friends – Chase Atlantic Back to friends – Sombr Talking to the Moon – Bruno Mars It Will Rain – Bruno Mars Heather – Conan Gray Falling – Harry Styles Salvatore – Lana Del Rey OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Prologue 1.

Alex 2. Alex 3. River 4. Alex 5. River 6. River 7. Alex 8. River 9. Alex 10. Alex 11. River 12. Alex 13. River 14. River 15. Alex 16. Alex 17. Alex 18. Alex 19. Alex 20. River 21. Alex 22. River 23. Alex Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Marie Socray OceanofPDF.com J PROLOGUE oyful screams and laughter echoed across the playground as my classmates ran like their lives depended on it; the simple game of tag to others was just short of war to them.

How seriously they took it sometimes took the fun out of it. I preferred swinging on the swing to playing tag. My feet pumped back and forth, pushing the swing higher and higher. I couldn’t go as high as I wanted to because Mommy had always told me I could break a bone if I did. She did not want me to break a bone. I didn’t want to break a bone either, so I listened to her.

Mother knew best. Lost in thought, I hummed a tune I didn’t realize I knew—a pop song my sister liked to blast in her bedroom after she had gotten in trouble— when Wesley and his friends ran up, keeping their distance to avoid a kick.

I dragged my feet along the ground to stop myself on the swing. “Hey, Axel,” Wesley stood with his fist balled and on his hips like a superhero. “It’s Alex,” I stated. Why could he never remember my name? We’d been in the same class since kindergarten.

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