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Gently, Kody rolled him over and held his head in her lap "My poor baby, but you looked totally K-A!"

And she looked totally beautiful

By the tione and roaned fro her hand to her head, she blinked open her eyes

"Brynna?" she asked in disbelief "What are you doing here?"

Brynna scowled "Don’t you reasped "The locket!" She snatched it off her neck and threw it into the bushes"

They all stared at her as if she’d been possessed again

"What was that?" Brynna asked

"Evil! I bought it in a store on St Anne because I was feeling really bad The man told me it would make me feel better about myself"

Caleb licked his lips "When did you buy it?"

Dina blinked "Yesterday, after school Bryn and Shon were talking about what they were going to do for the dance and who they wanted for the co for one of you to invite eek and the trash and…" Her voice trailed off as she realized the trash was also on her front porch

"W-hat are you doing here?" Dina gasped

Nick wanted to stand and do his tough guy strut Unfortunately for his ego, his body was through listening to hi I should have fed you to it"

"Dina," Brynna said, her voice dropping an octave "That wasn’t yesterday That eeks ago"

"No, it was yesterday"

Brynna shook her head

Nick’s phone rang And of course, it was in the pocket under his broken arm He tried to reach it and couldn’t "Um, help, so in another guy’s pants pocket Forget it That’s your girlfriend’s job"

Laughing, Kody reached in for it For a full minute, Nick felt no pain whatsoever All he felt was her hand sliding against his thigh Yeah, he liked that Definitely worth getting beaten with a bat to have her do that

She pulled his phone out and answered it "It’s Madaug" She handed it to him

"Hey, what’s up?" he asked

"Me and Mark finally cracked the site It eird At first the code was like so we tried, it deflected I’ve never seen anything like it Then a couple of ure"

Because a few uess, the site is owned by Dina Quattlebau sounded ilanced over to her "Really lucky guess Tell Mark I said thanks, and Madaug…"

"Yeah?"

"Good job, buddy You’re the best"

"No proble up and sadly slid his phone into a pocket he could reach "That was Madaug"

Caleb crossed his arms over his chest "We heard"

Nick sat up slowly to aze "We found out who posted those photos of you, and who’s been running the trash site about our classmates"

Dina’s face hite "How do you know about my domain?"

"That was you!" Brynna shrieked "You made photos of me … of me…"

The all-out panic on Dina’s face said that part of the cruelty had been spawned purely out of her own jealousy and anger, not the de like that?" Brynna yelled

"It was a joke"

Brynna curled her lip "No one laughed"

"Oh please … you and all your rich friends with your perfect Norman Rockwell lives … you all deserve to be knocked off your high horses"

Brynna screwed her face up "My life isn’t perfect, Dina Good grief, my parents are divorced and they split us kids up like we’re silverware The one person in this world I love, loves so math I’ve flunked my learner’s test four times now I have a little brother who’s a monster and my parents won’t correct hienerations who can’t cook Believeperfect aboutother people over it I’ve read your aweful hate-filled postings You’re the one who thinks you’re superior to us And at the end of the day, what ry isn’t the money or the clothes or popularity It’s because you’re jealous over the fact that even though our lives aren’t perfect, even though life is doing its best to bring us to our knees, too, we still , we don’t attack other people and we laugh at things that are funny And sister, no one worth a dahs at cruelty That’s what you’re really jealous over And that is what s, not conniving, self-serving, bitter harpies spreading o"