Harper was unconscious. Her face was
Walker was watching from the crowd. He was
involved last time, too!
Harper survived, but she was disfigured. She
took a leave of absence.
They packed up her things. Harper stared at
me with hatred.
My life went back to normal.
I made new friends.
Until a fat woman stopped me one day.
“Are you Willow Sterling?”
I didn’t know her. I took a step back. “Who
are you?”
“You lying bitch!” She tried to grab me.
Was this a kidnapper?
I ran.
The woman followed me.
I went back to the dorm.
Then Zara came back. She looked at me
strangely.
“Willow, did you piss someone off?”
“No. Why?”
“There’s a woman downstairs asking about
you. She has your picture. She says you’re
bitting on her husband!!!
Hitting on her husband? She looked forty!
“Willow Sterling! You better come out here!
You lying bitch! You’re hiding!”
I ran to the balcony. It was that woman.
She screamed even louder.
Zara said, “Go talk to her. She’s telling
everyone!”
I ran downstairs. There were people
everywhere.
The woman was holding a megaphone. She
threw it down and tried to slap me.
“You slut…”
Zara stopped her. “Ma’am…”
“Who are you calling ‘ma’am‘!” She glared at
Zara. “Get away from her!”
Zara was strong.
The woman rubbed her wrist. “She’s a
homewrecker!”
I said, “I don’t know you, and I don’t know
your husband. You can’t slander me!”
“Slander? Look!”
She threw a pile of photos at me. “Is this
you? You’re always asking my husband for
money!”
“It is Willow.‘
“How’d she do it?”
“Remember Harper? Her thing.”
“Oh… same dorm tradition…”
“What do you have to say? Sleeping with
married men?!”
It was me, but I wasn’t talking to him.
Someone was pretending to be me?
I stared at Zara. We knew it was Harper.
I explained everything. She yelled at me.
I called the cops.
t
The woman’s husband showed up. He looked
successful.
He looked at me and smiled. “Willow, I’ve
been trying to meet you. You’re even more beautiful in person!”
His wife yelled, “Don’t talk to her!” She
scratched his face!
“You crazy bitch! I’m divorcing you!”
“Enough!”
The police took notes.
“Mr. Davis, we’re investigating. Your wife said
Willow asked you for $400,000. Is that true?”
Mr. Davis looked at me. “Yes. It doesn’t
matter. Willow can have it!”
His wife stomped her feet.
“Mr. Davis, I’m Willow, but I’m not the Willow
you were talking to.”
Mr. Davis was confused. “You told me you
had a birthmark!”
Harper!
The police took us to the station.
“Mr. Davis, the person you were talking to is
someone else!”
They showed a picture. “Do you recognize
her?”
Mr. Davis shook his head.
“We traced the IP address. It’s the woman in
the picture. She’s gone.”
The man looked disbelieving.
“What about my $400,000?”
“We’re tracking it.”
Mr. Davis looked at me sadly.
The police warned me that Harper might do
something else.
I stuck with Zara.
Still, there was gossip.
Then Zara called. “Willow, don’t leave the
dorm!”
Ten minutes later, Zara asked, “Did you see
the forums?”
There was a new post: “Willow Sterling Is A
Gold Digger.” It had a “HOT” tag.
It said I was hooking up with married men. It
showed me getting out of Jace’s car. It said
all my stuff was from old men.
I was shaking. The same thing happened last
time.
Zara asked, “Are you okay?”
I registered, cursed them out.
“You think I sold myself? You’re trash!”
“Your mom know you have that on your
brain?”
“You stare at who gets out of fancy cars!”
I saved the IP address.
I called Jace.
“Your site is down!”
Jace was confused.
I told him everything.
“I’m on it.”
Ten minutes later, I got a message.
“Come to the dean’s office. We found the
person.”
It was Sunny.
“Why?” I asked.
“You ruined Harper!”
“Walker did that to Harper.”
“She and Jace were perfect.”
“You’re hitting on old men. Does Jace know?”
Jace was shocked. “Us? She’s my aunt!
You’re sick!”
“Harper ruined herself.”
Sunny said, “Harper said…”
I said, “You got used!”
car.
The dean wanted us to leave.
“I’m calling the police!”
The dean panicked.
“You can’t ruin the school’s reputation!”
The police took Sunny away. The dean was
worried.
My dad came home.
He sent a dress.
“The chairman said there’s a party. He wants
you to come with him.”
He wants me to get a boyfriend.
“I’ll pick you up.” The secretary ran off.
When I thought about it, my dad went gray
when I died. This time, I wouldn’t let anyone
hurt him.
