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That had been… fun

I hated to ad out with the Princes The Princes The four boys I’d sworn to hate forever, the four who had gone so far out of their way to make my life miserable for an entire semester

Just like they’d sat down today and dug up dirt on Evan’s faone after me just because my presence threatened their worldview

And now that things had shifted, I felt guilty, confused, and most of all… sad

If things had been like this all along, I could’ve seen us becoood friends They were all charis so brightly it made people want to be around them

If they had treatedreally great developing between us I probably would’ve asked one of theh I wasn’t sure who

But it hadn’t always been this way

For three months, they’d been the bane of my existence

And I could never, ever let et that

A strange thing about suddenly being in the Princes inner circle was that I found out about a whole other side to the school I’d never known existed

The rich boy fight club wasn’t the only illicit activity they organized Apparently, there was also a standing arrangement where once a month, the resident advisor of Clarendon hall turned a blind eye while they threw a raging party in the dorm Parties weren’t technically allowed on campus, which hy the two I’d been to last semester had been at Petra’s house

Students with parents who traveled a lot or were just generally absent tended to be the ones to host those, and although I hadn’t gone to many, I’d heard about a lot of them

But the dor? That was new to me

I’d been to Clarendon Hall a lot in the past couple weeks, but as I walked inside on a Thursday night in mid-February, my head swiveled around in amazement The place was totally transformed