"And who's to say he wouldn't do something awful to you in the meantime?" Maddy argued. "I'm not saying we use her like a shield...OK, I sort of am, but she has a much better chance of walking away from a confrontation than you do."
"Shit," Maddy hissed. She pulled out her phone and deleted the message without opening it, because there were some things she never wanted to see again, ever.
Jamie had muttered something about getting one of the blankets off his bed and slipped off to his room. And as a result, he missed Lena's warning. He pulled out his phone on reflex, opening the new message and sitting down hard on his bedroom floor. And it was like something in him just snapped.
He pulled the blanket off his bed, wrapping it around himself and curling into a corner on the floor of his closet. He pulled the blanket over his head and started to cry, because it was all finally becoming too much.