We all leave the principal’s office with long faces, knowing that we screwed up real bad. I tried to make principal Madden change her mind, but she told me the next punishment on the list is expulsion. For all of us. And I couldn’t do that to my friends.
Just as we’re walking down the full hallway, I notice a familiar figure in the distance. It’s Sheila. She’s being talked to by a warrior witch, who was with us in Cincinnati. And it doesn’t take much to imagine what she’s telling her.
The moment I see the look of shock cross her face, I already know what’s about to come. I stop in my tracks a moment before an ear-piercing scream fills the air, making the whole hallway shut up and stare at Sheila‘s public meltdown. She starts sobbing uncontrollably, tugging at her raven black hair.
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