The days following the chaotic assembly at Westbridge High were a pressure cooker of raw emotion and unrelenting drama, the school a stage set for a tragedy that refused to end. The leaked video of Elara’s brutal humiliation—her torn clothes, her desperate struggle against Brielle, Zara, and Chloe—had spiraled into a media firestorm that engulfed the elite institution. News outlets seized the story, headlines screaming about the scandal—“Westbridge High’s Shameful Secret”—with reporters hounding the gates, their cameras flashing like vultures. The footage, though blurred to hide the minors’ faces, left no doubt who was who among the students. Elara, the quiet scholarship girl, was branded a “s**t” in hushed whispers that turned to venomous chants, her identity a target even with the anonym
