Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates novel 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.