After the last bell rang, I pressed my lips together and shut off the lights in my classroom, and then I headed toward Principal Vaughn’s office. I scanned the hallways for Sakura, like I had done all last period while my class was working in the library. When I reached his office, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. f**k. FuckI tapped on the Voice Memos app on my phone. I didn’t want to be here, but I had no choice. Whatever the mob had been doing behind my back, I needed to figure it out. I didn’t know how bad it truly was, but I knew I needed to stop it. “Callan,” Vaughn said when I walked in. “I didn’t think you’d show up.” I closed the door behind me, really wishing that I weren’t here. All I wanted to do was go find Sakura and apologize, force her to hear me out. But she wan

