Chapter 4

The real breaking point happened on a Friday afternoon.

The final bell had just rung, and the whole school was dismissed.

Students flooded out of the main doors, laughing, running, and shoving each other. Nobody noticed the girl lingering behind in the corner of the fifth floor.

It was Lily Donovan, a junior from my homeroom. She stood at the very end of the hallway.

She was usually invisible, the kind of quiet girl who sat in the back row and never spoke up. But I remembered her.

Back when the rumors about me were blowing up, she was the…