It was Friday—the day of the welcome-back-to-school party. The preparations for the party that would take place at night had already been made. Invitations distributed, outfits chosen, drinks and snacks set. Everyone was in high spirits. Though the mass of Jackson Prep feared and despised Ciara Raven, they couldn’t debunk the fact that she and her friends threw the best parties. And because they were the children of influential people, no one in the school was going to punish them for throwing lavish parties on school grounds. In fact, there was even a rumor that the principal of Jackson Prep had personally given permission to Ciara and her friends to throw as many parties as they liked, under the condition that no one ended up in a critical state, either from drinking or fighting. It

