My Best Friend's Betrayal
I took a blow to the head to protect my best friend Samantha Lane from the most popular girl in school. It almost got me expelled.
Then Samantha turned around and sold me out completely, her voice dripping with sweetness as she sucked up to the girl who'd bullied her.
"Cassandra Jones is a raging psycho. If she hadn't stuck her nose where it didn't belong, I would've been in your group ages ago."
The next day, Samantha cried on camera during an interview.
She twisted the story of me taking a beating for her into some sick power trip I'd been running on her. By the time it spread, the whole school had turned against me, and I was getting torn apart online.
I stared at the screen, watching the two of them play best friends like nothing had happened. Then I calmly picked up my phone and called my older brother, the richest man in Hartwell City's elite social circle.
"Hey, I'm done playing broke."