The next day at school, Vanessa scoped her friends to see if they were still her friends. Apparently the news hadn't made it to them yet, which meant she would be in charge of the knowledge they received. At recess the girls gathered in their meeting spot under an abandoned trailer, huddling together but too young to really care about the cold.

Jalissa played her role perfectly; the outrage of her and her cousin being jumped and then the horrendous declarations of Marcella ...