I hugged my arms against my body. Glancing toward the balcony showed that none of the windows were broken or open. It wasn’t because I was cold.
“You okay with this?” Tattletale asked.
“All-in,” was all I could say.
Would you feel differently about it it wasn’t Sophia? What if it had been a different murderous asshole in the Wards?
Either way, it’s pretty clear that Taylor isn’t quite comfortable with this, even if it was her idea.
Speaking of which… do the others know that this is one of the bullies? How much has Taylor told them?
She smiled a little, almost apologetic. “All-in.”
We were doing this to Sophia, I told myself. The same girl who had abused, insulted and tormented me almost every school day since I’d started high school. She’d punched, kicked and shoved me. Had ruined my belongings, insulted me, thrown food at me, humiliated me, and had goaded others into doing much the same things. She was the one who had pushed me to that do-or-die point where my powers manifested. If that wasn’t enough, she had tried to kill me less than an hour ago, not because I was a criminal that deserved the death penalty, but because I had seen her unmasked. I was inconvenient.
Those are pretty solid reasons to be on the shit list.
Torture is something that it’s hard to say that anyone deserves. There’s a reason the torture curse is considered Unforgivable in the Harry Potter series. But at the same time, I have a hard time feeling sorry for Sophia. There’s just no sympathy left at this point.
And with all that in mind, I couldn’t be sure that she deserved this.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t want to say that she deserves it. But I can’t say that she doesn’t.
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