That was how at least three days of their week were routinely spent.
And, of course, it had become entirely normal for Rai now.
You know what else had become a permanent part of his routine? Seeing Julian attempt to talk to him every single day at school.
Ever since that day, Rai had been entirely convinced Julian was agonizing over whether his texts had actually been read, or if Rai possessed any real idea of what was going on.
It was an exhausting, relentless cycle of half-baked apologies followed by pathetic attempts to rebuild a friendship, even though Rai had made it abundantly clear that was never going to happen.
Combined with those unsettling questions and the scattered bits of information Zade had shared about him, Rai wanted nothing more than to regain his peace: the quiet, undisturbed school life he had enjoyed before Julian ever transferred there.
