+ MedoraI stared blankly at her face.I looked past her shoulder for a single second. The rest of the classroom looked like a frozen photograph. I remembered her face from my very first day here. She gave me a look of pure, burning disgust. She looked exactly like the mean girls from my old pack.I didn't bring it up. I kept my mouth shut. I just gripped my blue plastic pen tighter."I wanted to sit right here on Monday," Flora whispered. Her sweet voice easily cut through the dead silence of the room. "I actually walked toward your desk."I didn't answer her. I just waited."Ruby stopped me," Flora said.She dropped her voice into a tiny, broken whisper. She looked down at her pristine fingernails. She picked nervously at her pink nail polish."Ruby cornered me in the bathroom," Flora continued softly. "She told me if I even looked at the new girl, she'd make my life a living hell. She said she'd pour bleach into my gym bag. She threatened to ruin me."I stopped writing.My chest
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