"You going to be okay?" Dakota asked Micah as we walked out of school.
He nodded, wrapping his arm around Michelle. "I'm so sorry. But when I saw Riley harassing Michelle like that, I just lost it."
I nodded. "Yeah, but you can't blow up like that at school anymore. You put him in the hospital."
Dakota smirked. "Riley's lucky Micah didn't kill him."
I sighed as we crossed the parking lot to our cars. "I guess I'm to blame, too. After all, I threw the first punch."
Micah's head snapped up as Dakota suppressed a grin.
"What did he say?" Micah asked.
I scoffed. "You mean to tell me that you pulverized Riley like that, and you didn't even hear what he said?"
He shook his head. "From the sound of it, I probably don't want to know."
One corner of my lips curled into a smile. "No, you don't." If he had heard the comment he had made to Michelle, Riley wouldn't be alive right now. Micah would have killed him for sure.
