♕ c h a p t e r f o r t y s i x ♕ — treason a r i a h a l e ﹉﹊ ♕ ﹉﹊ There's an old saying, not everyone you lose is a loss. But why? Why did losing contact with Carter Dean affect me so much? We were not friends but we weren't enemies either. We were in the middle, it was a mutual love-hate relationship. I look at Carter and the other two kings speaking at their infamous table, I look down to see my lunch tray in my grip. I couldn't sit with them anymore, I wasn't crowned anymore. I turn to find a table at the end of the lunch hall, a table so lowly ranked that it was social death to sit on. But I didn't mind, what hasn't this school taken away from me? As I take a seat on the low ranked table people stare at me, I could feel it all. Their ghastly gaze, their hushed murmurs and chatt

