The sirens weren’t echoing from the street outside—they were blaring inside my chest.
The second the police officers entered the gym, every insult, every cruel laugh, every whispered comment about my face came crashing back at once. My stomach dropped. I was convinced they had come because of me. I thought Caleb had betrayed my trust. I thought, once again, I was about to become everyone’s favorite joke.
Then one of the officers turned and pointed past me.
Toward Brittany.
In that instant, the night I had feared for years transformed into something completely different.
The gym felt suffocatingly hot as hundreds of eyes followed the officers moving across the floor. The same students who had spent years watching Brittany rule the hallways with confidence and cruelty suddenly stood frozen in silence. Her usual smirk vanished. The certainty she always carried disappeared. For the first time, everyone watched as her control slipped away right in front of them.
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