C25 Chapter 25: Self-hate

"What's going on here?" Carla asked, making Winter push Zane away by a few feet.

"Carla, it's not what you think," Winter blurted out. Feeling Zane's glaring gaze, she corrected, "No, it's actually what you think."

"Friends with benefit?" Carla arched an eyebrow.

"What? No. He's my boyfriend," the words rolled off her tongue on their own, yet she could taste the unfamiliarity in it. Even so