Right. How could I possibly have it?Because I'd gotten it back then.In that moment, a wave of bitterness and hurt surged through me.I'd gotten the recording back then, but I didn't have the courage to show it to anyone.I buried it deep, as though it were a dirty secret.I had hidden it for one reason. At school, Ella was always bragging about her high-powered parents and her uncle, a powerful politician.I was afraid.I was afraid that if I released it, she would come after me and my parents, who ran a small farm.I was terrified.So, for all four years of high school, she bullied, slandered, and isolated me. Time after time, I suffered in silence and never dared fight back.But things were different now.Over those seven years, every drop of sweat, every weight I'd lifted, and every step I'd run had hardened into the armor I wore now.At last, I had the courage to stand there. I wasn't doing it for anyone else. I was there to get justice for the timid, cowardly girl I had been, th
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