If that was how it turned out, I was okay with that.
“Enough,” the male voice cut in.
Sophia halted in her advance. She turned an impassive expression to Brian, who stood to her left. He set plastic bags of food on the ground as she watched. “The boyfriend.”
Eyy, backup!
Brian looked at me, and there was a touch of concern in the expression.
I turned my attention back to her. “Meet Sophia. One of the girls that’s been giving me a hard time at school.”
“Oh hi, Brian. How are you? This is Sophia, she’s against me.”
The look of concern disappeared from his face in an instant. It was replaced by anger.
“She’s lying,” Sophia told him, without the slightest trace of hesitation.
Too late, Sophia. Brian trusts Taylor.
“She cheated off me for a test, and got us both suspended and-”
“Shut up,” Brian’s voice was low, not much different from his normal speech, but Sophia got the message. She closed her mouth. He turned to me, “Are you okay?”
Voice manipulator or no voice manipulator, Brian knows how to make people listen to him.