She was still marking Arden’s wrong answers on his papers. When she noticed I had come, a light shock flashed across her eyes.
We walked back together, and I told her everything on my mind, asking why she treated me like that.
But when I mentioned that Arden purposely tricked me into going to the amusement park and set me up with the umbrella, Calliope’s face tightened.
She quickly cut off my words, saying, “I don’t get why you’re always so against Arden. He isn’t the person you think he is.”
“Since knowing Arden, I found you to be so jealous. He treats you nicely, yet you point fingers at him again and again, just because he is better than you?”
“Do you even know how high his fever was that day? Even after you left, he kept blaming himself, wondering if he said something wrong.”
I froze.
I never thought that after all our years together, Calliope wouldn’t even believe me a little.
“Rayne, this is the first time you made me feel so sickened. Are you so average that you can’t stand someone more capable?”
I couldn’t accept that those sentences came from her.
Maybe she sensed she spoke too harshly, because she stretched her hand out to pull my sleeve.
“Sorry… that wasn’t what I meant.”