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.”

invite, not because she was scared of Beatrice’s threat, but because she was

and left with a smug grin, Agnes felt like the world

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

a junior journalism

the school gate, she received a distress message from her roommate, Kerri. The 5 Bitches had trapped her in the medical

immediately tossed her suitcase and bolted towards the lab

mean girls were the main perps. They had formed a group called

said a pretty woman was a ticking

student, attractive, and had a lot of female admirers at school. Because he was icy and aloof, his fans nicknamed him Prince