Invisible To Her Bully (Jessa and Noah) novel Chapter 274

Chapter 274

Jessa

I should’ve told him.

I really should have.

The words kept echoing in my head long after Noah left.

I was still sitting on the couch where we’d been talking, staring at the door like somehow he might walk back in and give me another chance to say it.

But the truth was…

I wasn’t ready.

Not yet.

Not unless I had some sort of plan.

Because the more I kept digging into what it would actually take for me to go to a school across the country…

The more my hopes were dimming.

I opened my laptop again, even though I already knew what I was going to see.

Tuition.

Housing.

Fees.

Travel

Numbers.

So many numbers that they didn’t even feel real anymore.

I stared at the screen, my stomach twisting.

“This is impossible,” I whispered.

Because every time I thought I might have figured out a way…

Another cost popped up.

Another obstacle.

Another reminder that dreams weren’t free.

I leaned back against the couch and closed my eyes.

I really need to get out of Ridgeville.

The thought came hard and fast, like something that had been building for years.

Because I was tired.

Tired of the looks.

Tired of the whispers.

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Tired of being judged before people even knew me.

In Ridgeville, people decided who you were the moment they looked at you.

And once they decided…

That was it.

You didn’t get to change their minds.

You just carried that label forever.

For me, it had always been the same one.

The girl who didn’t fit the mold.

The girl who didn’t look like the other girls.

The girl people whispered about when they thought I couldn’t hear them.

Then Noah became my boyfriend.

And somehow that made everything worse before it got better.

Because suddenly people weren’t just judging me.

They were questioning him.

Why would someone like Noah date someone like me?

There had to be a reason.

A joke.

A bet.

Money.

Anything except the truth.

That he actually liked me.

Because according to Ridgeville standards…

A fat, overweight girl wasn’t supposed to get the good–looking guy.

We weren’t allowed to have that.

That was the unspoken rule,

And then there was Jackson.

My twin brother.

The star quarterback.

The popular one.

The one everyone loved.

Standing next to him was like standing under a spotlight that only showed my flaws.

People would look at us and laugh.

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You got pushed to the side.

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