جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 10

"Calista, what is wrong with you?" Madison Walker shot to her feet.The entire class of over 40 students turned to look at us.Madison clutched her lower abdomen, her eyes welling up with tears. "It's fine if you don't want to give me one. Did you really have to broadcast it to the whole room?"I snapped the cap back onto my pen, my expression completely impassive. "Periods are natural. There's nothing to be ashamed of. You were too embarrassed to ask loudly, so I helped you out."My response left her speechless.A few students nearby lowered their heads to hide their laughter, while others whispered that I was too blunt. Madison glared at me. "Forget it."Hunched over in pain, she grabbed her bag and walked out. After class, the class group chat quickly blew up with messages.Someone joked, "Calista yelling like that today scared the hell out of me!""Madison looked mortified.""Still, it's pretty rude to shout about something like that across a crowded room."Madison st

The next morning, I went back to my old dorm room to retrieve my textbooks.Two clear storage bins were sitting right outside the door. My towel, water bottle, face wash, and slippers had all been haphazardly crammed inside. A sticky note had been placed on top."Do not bring these items into the shared dorm space."Students passing through the hallway slowed their pace, casting sideways glances and whispering. "Is that her?""I heard she's been isolated.""She still has the nerve to come back for her things?"Ignoring them, I crouched down and repacked my belongings into my bag. When Nancy pushed the door open and saw me, her face went pale. "Calista, why didn't you tell us you were coming?""Do I need permission to get my own books?" I asked coldly. She opened her mouth, hesitated, and then stammered, "It's not that. Everyone's scared right now.""What's there to be afraid of?" I stood up. "Are you scared I'll breathe on you?"Her face reddened at the question.Judy

Projected across the screen at the front of the hall was an official medical statement bearing a hospital's verified seal. It was a medical report from the dermatology and infectious disease department at one of the city's top hospitals.I zoomed in on two crucial paragraphs. The first excerpt read, "The infection is transmitted primarily through direct sexual contact. The probability of indirect transmission via casual contact with fomites is clinically negligible." The second statement declared, "Even if outer packaging is compromised or partially torn, a disposable sanitary pad cannot serve as an effective vector for transmitting the aforementioned infection." The collective murmurs in the hall instantly died down as students read the text for themselves. I swiped to the second page of the document. "This specific infection has a well-documented incubation period ranging from several weeks to months. Attempting to attribute a sudden positive diagnosis to a borrowed sani

The next morning, the conference room was packed.Madison didn't show up. Apparently, she had called in sick.The associate dean, Warren Malt, spoke as soon as I sat down. "Calista, we've looked into what happened yesterday. We admit that some of the school's handling of the matter was inappropriate."That was a very mild way of putting it. They made it sound like a minor mistake.They had singled me out and put me through hell, and they were trying to frame it as a minor clerical error. Percy wouldn't even look at me. A new set of documents sat next to him.Warren continued, "The school wants to keep this from escalating any further. If you have any reasonable requests, we're more than willing to hear them.""What about the proposed disciplinary action?" I asked.Warren answered immediately, "It will be officially suspended, of course.""No. I want it completely and permanently expunged," I replied calmly. The room went quiet for a moment.I placed my phone on the table.

Nancy's expression froze.I didn't take the basket from her. "We can be classmates, but forget about being friends."The door slowly closed. I could hear her standing outside for a long time before her footsteps finally faded away.That evening, Judy messaged me too. "Calista, I'm sorry for the nasty things I have said before. Madison fooled me too."I stared at the screen but didn't reply.Being lied to didn't excuse all the things she had done.The next day, the disciplinary committee called me in to verify what had happened.I handed over everything I had. There were screenshots from public social media accounts, chat records, the original audio file, a recording of the class meeting, and screenshots of the posts.The investigation lasted five days.Madison didn't return to school during that time.She deleted all the posts from her social media, changed the names on her accounts, and replaced her profile picture with a solid black image.But it was too late. The guys she