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“Killer bitch doesn’t belong in our school.”
Shove. Shove.
Their hits were coming from everywhere. Shoving my shoulder. Slamming their book bags into my back. Kicking my shins. It was getting out of hand fast, and by the growing crowd of watchers, no one was coming to my rescue.
I bolted to the right—diving through the gap between Justin and one of his teammates. Moving fast, they snapped their shoulders together and I bounced off their hard chests—flying back in their grips.
“Admit what you did!”
“Where’s the body!”
“Get out of our school.”
They were shoving, shouting, and kicking all at once. I couldn’t get free. I couldn’t steady the spinning bodies and buildings to see where freedom was.
A hard shove struck my back, and I went flying.
“Ahh!”
I cracked my shoulder on the concrete step and kept falling.
“Oh, shit!”
“What did you do!”
“It wasn’t me!”
Down the steps I tumbled, hitting every body part on the unforgiving steps on the way down.
Black flooded my vision—swallowing me and the world whole. I fell through the empty space—pain crumpling my forehead and drawing my eyes nearly shut. Through the slits, strange golden squiggles floated in the gloom.
Squiggles? No. No, that looks like—
I reached out—desperate to grab on to something and stop myself falling.
My hand closed on the thread.
“Oh, look. It’s a Harry girl. Shame about that tragic, shit-brown uniform.”
“How about we brighten it up for you?”
I looked around, blinking.
Paint balloons splattered the sidewalks.
“Fuck, not her!”
“Get away from her!”
“Run!”
The Victoria Day kids took off running—again.
What the hell? What happened?I looked around. Where were Kylie, Dina, and Justin? Was I knocked out falling down the stairs, and someone carried me all the way out here, dumping me on the sidewalk like trash?
No.
I trailed a hand up my shoulder. Eyes widening, I lifted it up and down. I felt it—heard it—as I fell. Something popped in my shoulder when I hit the step. Even more things broke.
