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The framed certificate the dean had handed , stu for the door at the back of the roo down the hall toward the building’s exit, asps

I burst out into the quiet night and walked quickly down the pathway toward the quad, ht buckle at anythe sounds from the video, which had played so loud it was like they’d pierced my brain

The heavy breathing The low moans and whimpers

Those had been ours

They’d been soile

And now they were trash

Before I’d even ht my eye, and I stopped

On the pathway leading to the gymnasium stood all four of the Princes, shoulder to shoulder, locked into their perfect formation

Bile rose up my throat as the awful suspicion in my mind turned into undeniable truth

They had done this

They had recorded every bit of that footage They had orchestrated the dares, gotten ht direction, and then waited for ive them what they wanted

The night of the first Clarendon party, when Finn had taken htstand, I’d thought it meant I could trust them But when I’d been passed out drunk, they’d used the chance to make me look like a slut

And when all that wasn’t enough, they’d doctored the i thee to sell all of it

For the past three months, they’d pretended our as over But the whole tiainst me And now, somehow, they’d played it in front of half the school

In front of randparents