Heartstrings on Fire

Chapter 13

Agnes never fancied high–collar shirts, and Beatrice knew this well. Today she felt weird somehow, and it turned out to be a bombshell discovery.

Beatrice stepped up and yanked down Agnes‘ collar, “Agnes, I’m gonna tell Dad about you messing around with some dude! You’ve got a hickey, but you broke up with Elton, so it must have been the guy who dropped you off today!”

Beatrice looked at her with scorn, “Agnes, I never thought you’d be such a floozy. Bet you stabbed Elton in the back, and that’s why he dumped you, right?”

“Beatrice, zip it.”

“I hit the nail on the head, didn’t I? If you want me to keep mum, hand me the invite and tell Dad yourself that you don’t wanna go. Or else, Dad will hear it from me, as well as Elton and his folks.”

because she was scared of Beatrice’s threat, but because she was

the invite and left with a smug grin, Agnes felt

up early skipped breakfast, and headed back to school with her

was a junior journalism major at

she received a distress message from her roommate, Kerri. The 5 Bitches had trapped her

tossed her suitcase

hurry because she knew this was serious. She had done research on bullying at school, and these five mean girls were the main perps. They had formed

violence was caused by a guy, Ryder Whitfield, a hotshot and a medical student at Lakeside College. Some said a pretty woman was a ticking time bomb, but a

case in point. He was a straight–A student, attractive, and had a lot of female admirers at school. Because he was icy and aloof, his fans nicknamed him Prince Frost and formed a group called the Ice Cream Club. The five ringleaders called themselves Ice Cream Princesses, but everyone