I opened the door to my dorm room, expecting it to be empty. Instead, all three of them were there, Helione lounging on her bed, Oprah sitting at her desk, and Sabrina braiding her hair in the mirror.They all turned to look at me."Oh, you're back," Helione said casually, as if I'd just been gone for an afternoon, not locked in a cell beneath the school for what felt like an eternity.Something twisted inside my chest."You didn't come," I said quietly. "None of you came."Oprah exchanged a glance with Sabrina. "We couldn't," she said, her tone defensive. "Bergstrom said no visitors. He had guards at the door. We tried, Aurora, but—""You tried?" I felt my voice rising. "You tried? I was in solitary confinement. I was losing my mind down there, and you tried?""What do you want us to do?" Sabrina snapped, finally turning around to face me fully. "Break into the principal's office? You've been treating us like trash since you got here, like we're beneath you. Maybe you deserved
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