private school Ashley and Brandon attended. It was a world

, playing the part of the concerned s

ce to her popular friends. "She' s just from a small

hey' d "accidentally" knock my books out of my hands. They' d whisper loudly about my cheap shoes

books I' d hidden inside my textbooks. I turned i

l eyes. The other kids called him a troublemaker, a "bad boy," but he

ca cornered me

r voice dripping with contempt. "Does she smell like chemi

t to grab a st

hand shot out and clamped a

ice. He wasn' t even looking at Jessica; he was looking at

he' d been burned. "What' s it to yo

y meeting her gaze. "Your voice. I

ends scurried off,

it to be my hero. He' d done it because they were bothering him. But it was the first time so