The gymnasium fell silent. Harper froze in place.
“Let her know, Stella,” a different teenager commented.
Stella grinned mockingly and moved nearer. “Did you seriously base your entire identity around a deceased officer, weird girl?”
The space turned hushed in that terrible, eager manner spaces experience when individuals detect drama and elect to stand still like statues.
My fingers curled tightly into hard balls.
Harper attempted to step past her, yet Stella shifted to block her path.
Herbeauty
“Do you realize what is worse?” Stella commented, her tone even crueler now. “He is likely looking down from heaven this very moment, observing you…” she hesitated. “… and he is completely ashamed.”
I moved one pace ahead, yet before I managed to utter a word, Stella raised her beverage.
“Allow me to fix this outfit.”
Stella dumped her entire glass of fruity liquid directly onto Harper’s chest.
The mess expanded over the dark blue material, absorbed into the meticulously sewn edges, dripped down the bodice in hideous lines, and splashed across the metal shield.
For a single moment, no one shifted.
Then mobile devices appeared in hands.
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