The night I had dreaded my whole life became the night everything finally broke open. Standing in that overheated gym, mascara-streaked faces staring, I watched the same people who had laughed at me go silent as the officers crossed the floor toward Brittany. For years, she’d owned those halls with a smirk and a ponytail; now her power crumbled in real time, her shrieks echoing off the walls that once sheltered her cruelty.Later, when the flashing lights were gone and the music stuttered back to life, I realized something quiet but enormous: the room felt smaller, and I no longer did. My birthmark hadn’t changed, but the story around it had. With Megan’s fingers laced through mine and Caleb waiting at a careful distance, I stepped out of that gym not as the girl they pitied or mocked, but as the girl who finally chose herself.
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