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Lyris clenched her teeth to stop her body’s reaction. She clutched her book so tight that it could tear. With her heart thundering in her chest, she focused at the teacher as if she was the world. For the whole class, she could feel that Hayes’s eyes were on her and his brother Aaron was probably digging holes at her back.

She knew what this was all about. They were all going to bully her right f