NICOLE

"Nicole? What the hell are you doing!?"

He charges towards us, so fast that it makes my head spin, and then he positions himself beside Haley and throws an arm around her shoulder.

I watch my brother doing this and wonder where the hell things went so wrong.

"Nicole!" he says again. This time, when he looks up at me, he's not shocked. He has anger written all over his face.

"You can't seriously believe that I started this!" I spit. "I told you I didn't want to come in here ...