*Maddie* It was thirty minutes later that we approach the school. My face was set in stone. I had no more tears to cry, and I knew my stoic expressions made Derek nervous. But this was high school after all... if you weren't the strongest predator, you became prey. Popularity was a fickle b***h. There was no telling how the tides had turned with the rumors about Arielle and how that may affect me as a former friend of hers. There is chum in the water, and the sharks were coming in to feast. The grounds were overflowing with people, and there was a time that I would have enjoyed looking out into the mass of moving bodies. Not today. Driving into the parking lot managed to take years off of my life as groups of students with no personal sense of s

