Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 372

Chapter 372: 372-A Blast From My Past
Helanie:

I wanted to tell her and remind her it was she who brought this upon herself when she befriended Sydney, but I didn’t. I just gave her a simple reply that I thought would help her realize our friendship now had a huge dent.

“I deserved the punishment, didn’t I?” I lied down, but she bolted upright in a jolt.

“Gavin told you that, didn’t he? Don’t you see he’s doing that so our friendship gets ruined?” she spoke hastily, using a bitter tone and not caring about the volume to the point that she got the attention of Lamar.

“No! I did, and let me tell you some breaking news: you’re responsible for this mess. You wanted to befriend Sydney and then taunt and mock Helanie to stay on Sydney’s good side. Dude, you are so done. So why not shut the heck up and sleep?” Lamar didn’t play this time—he actually yelled at her.

That was shocking. Lamar usually doesn’t raise his voice at women, so for her to piss him off this much explained how wrong she was heading and how oblivious she was for putting the blame on me instead.

Lucy went silent and then slowly crawled under her blanket. I heard her whimper, but I noticed Lamar sit up in his bed and make a huge cross with his arms, signaling me not to check on her. I agreed with him and went to sleep.

Although I knew she was dealing with a lot after coming back from that coma, I had to give her a nudge to wake up and get back on the right path.

We woke up early and joined the brothers on the training ground. They all avoided me like I didn’t exist.

“Let’s pick our teams, shall we?” Norman clapped his hands, stepping forward to face the students.

Emmet had his hair in a loose man bun, strands of his hair dancing around his face.

“Helanie,” before others could even agree that they were ready to pick, Emmet went ahead and said my name. I was taken aback by the sudden name call.

Not just me, but everyone turned their heads toward me. It wasn’t common for the trainers to pick someone right away like that.

“Wait, we have to first decide who will go first,” Norman smiled, almost like he was laughing uncomfortably when reminding his brother to follow the rules.

“We can do it now, but I already had a pick. So you guys can go ahead and decide who will go next,” Emmet disagreed with him, making Maximus shake his head.

“I think we should go from the start,” he said.

“Why? I only picked one person. Unless you want her on your team, I think it’s okay for us to just move forward,” Emmet sounded so aggressive as he refused to restart.

“Okay!” That was the first time I watched Norman look so unhappy.

I could tell it wasn’t because his brother picked me. I mean, one of them would have picked me eventually, right?

The others then started to do rock-paper-scissors, and in that moment, I watched them genuinely laugh and push each other back when they all selected paper.

They were so close to each other, so it was going to be hard for me if one of them turned against me. Thankfully, Kaye hadn’t bothered me today. But it could be because Norman and Emmet were at the ground today.

“Okay, I’ll go next,” Norman said, but before he could continue, he turned to his brothers and gave them one look before saying, “Sydney.”

Wow!

Why did he choose her? I had to shake my head to stop acting like he shouldn’t when he had every right to. Why was I getting upset?

“Lamar,” Kaye stepped ahead and picked Lamar, and my face instantly lost its color.

“I think we should pick friends in one team so they’re more at ease with each other,” Norman said to Kaye, making me believe he was actually showing concern.

“Gavin!” And then Maximus called out to Gavin, almost like dismissing Norman’s request and agreeing with Kaye.

They were picking my friends only, so they were targeting me.

I was so bothered that I instantly looked down.

“Jenny,” and the way Emmet also picked my friend confirmed the brothers’ line was all about me at that moment.

“Salem,” Norman said, keeping the “bitchy” ones, or he thought they were, in his group.

“Penn!” Kaye yelled, and I grimaced.

“Lucy!” Maximus certainly didn’t know she was no longer my friend, so he picked her.

At this point, it was a shitshow, and I could tell Norman and Emmet were not happy about it. But the younger ones were on a mission to bother me.

In the end, I was left with the strangers, except for Jenny and Hans Willerk. He was the one in Sydney and Salem’s team back when we were doing the frogster cage task. I remembered him from there. He was a messy one. So messy that even Sydney and Salem had distanced themselves from him.

After the whole team-up was done and we had already done some exercises, our classes were finished.

I was seriously left with a sour taste in my mouth for the day. But as I was heading back to the academy with my friends catching up with me, I noticed a number pop up on my screen.

Then I received a text from the unknown caller.

Unknown: Pick up my call. You know me.

I frowned, staring at my screen that kept lighting up with the call.

“Hey, are you okay?” Lamar arrived, his hand on my shoulder.

“Yeah, I’m getting a call. But the unknown caller says I know them,” I showed him my screen.

“Then attend the call. Maybe it’s someone from old school or someone you’ve met before,” Gavin didn’t realize it wouldn’t be that easy for me to attend a call from someone I had known before coming to the academy.

If it was indeed someone from my past, then I’m freaking screwed.