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Chapter 1: THE BOY WHO REFUSED TO MOVE

“Take your tray and leave. Right now.” The command was loud enough to silence three nearby tables, but the quiet boy sitting beside the cafeteria wall did not move. Troy…

Chapter 1: THE TRUTH THEY WANTED BURIED

The slap cracked through the hallway outside the principal’s office before anyone had time to stop it. Sixteen-year-old Ethan Cole felt his head snap sideways, his cheek burning as the…

Chapter 1: THE BOY WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT

  The chair disappeared beneath me before I had even finished opening my lunch, and for one terrifying second, I felt the entire world tilt backward. My fingers closed around…

Chapter 1: The Boy Who Refused to Lower His Eyes

The punch landed with a sickening crack, snapping Leo Bennett’s head sideways and sending his thick silver glasses sliding halfway off his face, but the most frightening thing about what…

Chapter 1: The Boy Nobody Defended

The chair vanished from beneath me before I even realized someone had touched it. One moment, I was sitting at the far end of the cafeteria table, opening my lunch…

Chapter 1: THE BOY WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT

The first thing I heard was the plastic lunch tray hitting the cafeteria floor. The second was the laughter of nearly thirty students who had already taken out their phones.…

Chapter 1: The Boy Who Refused to Fight

  The dodgeball struck my face so hard that my glasses flew across the gym floor, but the thing I remember most wasn’t the pain. It was the laughter. Twenty…