Chapter 166 It Keeps Getting Bad

• "Mom, for the last time, you are not suing Zane or the college. I told you already! It was consensual! He didn't take advantage of me. We are in a relationship. We are in love! I know how this sounds but you have to trust me, for Christ's sake. Just this once, trust me on this and let it go. I am not suing him! You can't make me! I am not a minor and I definitely wasn't one when we got together. This is absurd!" I have been back home for a week now and this is the hundredth time we are having this conversation. It makes me want to pull my hair out strand by strand. No matter what I say, my mother doesn't back down. I have tried all I possibly could, she simply wouldn't try to understand.
• I guess I can't blame her much about it anyway, considering the fact that the scandal is still waxing as strong as ever. Zane is suing Hillary and her network station for defamation. They are countersuing him for reasons I didn't even bother understanding, I just know it is an attempt at saving face. The college released a vague statement that didn't touch on anything tangible. And the whole world still hasn't moved on like I hoped it would. Okay, saying the whole world appears like an exaggeration but that is what it has felt like these past week where I have spent so many dizzying hours on the internet, it is a wonder I haven't lost my mind, reading articles after articles that tell my story like they knew me. Painting a picture of Zane and I that frankly, doesn't help us in any way.
• I haven't been able to say anything on the school's forum, though I have been getting tagged relentlessly till Maggie came to my aid and demanded that I stopped being tagged and asked direct question, more like threatened and that didn't do much good for my case.