Chapter 4

Ryan said he casually brought it up and never thought Mia would actually go that far with it.

Mia refused to shoulder the blame alone and pulled our parents into it. "Every time I messed with Hazel, you all were cracking up right along with me."

Dad cut her off, his face dark. "What's done is done. No point in regretting it now."

But this time, Mom didn't chime in. "If it were Mia whose hair got chopped off, who got filmed, laughed at by everyone, and was the one everyone was betting on to cry, would you still say…