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The halls of Westerburg High hummed with a new, unstable frequency. For so long, the hierarchy was absolute: the Heathers—Chandler, McNamara, and Duke—ruled from their thrones of scorn and privilege. Now, a hairline fracture had become a chasm, and at its center stood Veronica Sawyer. She was no Heather. She was ordinary, academic, utterly out of place. Yet, she commanded the room with a quiet gravity that even Heather Chandler deferred to. Heather Duke stood apart, a spot of defiant green in the grey, watching. A corrosive envy, familiar and cold, twisted in her gut, but it was now fused with a hotter, more shameful current. Her heart beat a frantic, traitorous rhythm against her sternum. The girl who was next in line, who had everything to lose, was completely undone by a plain, bor…