*Maddie FLASHBACK* “MADELINE SWARTZ! My office now!” I turn to look behind me to find the owner of the booming voice and see Principal Zipulski barreling toward me like a freight train. I roll my eyes at his theatrics. As if I would be afraid of his tweed gray shoes, his high-water trousers, his rainbow-colored suspenders, his black-framed rectangular glasses, his droopy jowls, his flaring pig nostrils, or that he left his hair back in the 1990s somewhere. Must have left his mind there too if he thought that outfit was okay. Tragic really. “Whatever.” I turn back to find Jasmine holding a hand to her flowing nose juices. Her pierced nose gushes blood as she screams in humiliation, pain, and anger. I couldn’t see my smile, but I bet it was s*****

