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Straight-A scholarship student by day, relentless bullying target by choice. Emma Bishop kept her head down for two solid years just to survive senior high. But when Jett, her former best friend turned tormentor, crosses the line in the empty art room, the game changes forever. No more quiet tears. No more running away. Watch the smartest girl in school play him at his own game and turn the tables! 💥🔥 Chapter 1: Six Months to Go “Emma! If you don’t move, you’ll be late for school!” Mom has now called up to me twice. Instead of answering, I stay perched on the mattress edge, my backpack at my feet and my attention fixed on a blank section of wall. Maybe today will turn out okay. I repeat that thought every morning, even though the last two years have given me no reason to believe it. School and good days stopped belonging in the same sentence a long time ago. Only six months remain before senior year ends. After that, this place can’t touch me anymore. I should be thrilled. At eighteen, I’m close to graduating, and my grades have earned me a full scholarship to nearly any college I choose. Somehow, relief isn’t the only thing I feel. The fact that I can’t decide whether leaving makes me happy might be the most twisted part of all. I’m Emma Bishop: rule follower, friendless nerd, and compulsive people pleaser. Everyone gets a piece of me except me. I wasn’t always like this. Circumstances have a way of reshaping people, and whatever they made of me is worse than who I used to be. Once, I had plenty of friends. Ava and Blair were the closest, and the three of us had been impossible to separate throughout middle school and junior high. Then sophomore year began, and I cut nearly everyone out of my life. My family became the sole exception. “Are you planning to come downstairs, honey?” Mom’s voice carries up again. With a sigh, I hook my backpack off the floor and stand. If I delay much longer, Mom may actually work herself into a coronary. Before entering the kitchen, I
