I Watched Them Love Her Chapter 05

I Watched Them Love Her Chapter 05

In my last life, I’d actually done it. I’d transferred to the regular classes, desperate not to disappoint them.

And what happened?

Chloe played the victim, first winning over our new classmates, then turning them against me.

She spread rumors that I was mean and jealous, that I bullied her at home.

My grades plummeted.

For three years, I was branded “the awful older sister.”

This time, I wouldn’t make the same mistake.

On the first day of school, I walked into the honors and AP homeroom.

The wall was a gallery of college acceptances.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia.

Last time, I walked away from this room.

This time, I wouldn’t.

“Tessa?”

I looked up to see Rowan Bennett standing beside my desk, his expression a mixture of surprise and delight.

“It really is you,” he said. “We’re in the same class again.”

As he spoke, he slid into the seat next to me with an easy, familiar motion.

In my last life, my heart would have hammered against my ribs at his proximity.

Later, we got together.

And later still, in a sterile hospital corridor, he told me he had fallen in love with Chloe.