Everyone Mocked Me for Going to Prom With the School Outcast—Then He Exposed My Brother’s Secret in Front of the Entire Gym

heading straight toward me. His braces caught the light when he tried to smile. His hands were shaking.

“Eliza,” he said. “Hi.”

“Hi, Theo.”

“I, um. I wanted to ask you something. Before I lost the nerve.”

The whole hallway seemed to slow down. I could feel people turning toward us, phones rising into the air, the atmosphere tightening around us.

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