Chapter 18

The students move out of his way, giving him a clear path to the door. “I was thinking maybe we could go, just me and you.” I look over at Andrew and find him with a strained smile on his handsome face. One of my brows goes up. “We could walk on the beach instead.”

“Are you trying to get me off this boat, after working so hard to get me here?” I ask, this knot in my stomach tightening. Dread washes over me, and I know for a fact that I’m about to get all the week’s bullying in one, big dollop. At my old school, that would’ve meant getting my ass kicked behind the science building.

At Burberry Prep Academy, I have no idea what it means. And that scares the crap out of me.

“Let’s just go for a walk or something,” Andrew says, almost pleadingly, but then I notice the crowd is funneling out of the door and up the steps to the top deck. Even though I know I shouldn’t, even though I know I’m going to regret this … I follow after. “Marnye, wait!”

Andrew chases after