Chapter 4: The Report That Existed Before the Incident
The next morning, Westbridge High looked exactly as it always had.
Students crowded the front entrance. The cafeteria served watery oatmeal. Someone had drawn a mustache on the poster advertising the fall musical.
But when Malik and I walked through the main doors, conversations stopped around us.
A boy near the lockers whispered, "That's him.""
Another student lifted his phone.
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I caught report that might have been written before anyone watched the evidence.
And the person who had signed it was the same principal who had promised to protect Malik.