After my boyfriend tricked me into transferring,

I promised to transfer schools with my bullied boyfriend, but the day before we were supposed to finalize the papers, he backed out.

His friend joked, “Seriously, dude? All that fake bullying just to get Aria Blackwood to leave?”

“But you’re her boyfriend. Are you really going to let her go to a new school all alone?”

Liam Thorne shrugged, his voice indifferent. “It’s just another school in the same city. How far could it be?”

“I’m tired of her clinging to me all the time. This works out perfectly.”

I stood outside that door for a long time that day, eventually choosing to turn and leave.