“Do any of you guys know a girl named Beth that’s on our floor?”Piper glanced at Cassidy, then looked at me. “You mean that bully with stringy brown hair?”I hadn’t really noticed her hair, but now that she mentioned it, it was kind of stringy. “Yeah.”“Why? Has she been picking on you?” Piper said, then took a bit of her wheat roll.“You could say that.”“You should just stay out of her way,” Cassidy said.“It’s a little late for that now, unfortunately,” I said.Piper’s eyebrows went up. “What happened?”I described the incident in the gym the night before, my suspicion that she had left the mess in the bathroom, and then the confrontation in class. “Dang, Morgan. What were you thinking?” Alyx said.I had to admit that they were right. It was stupid of me to respond to her like I had. Now I was sure I had just made things worse, but what was I supposed to do? Let her bully me? “I don’t know. But I can’t change it now.” I noticed Billy hadn’t contributed anything to the conversation.
