**Officially published as Clique Bait with HarperTeen!**
Payment is usually a part of a basic transaction. You give and then you take. But, at Arlington Preparatory, people take at their leisure. They take their entertainment in the form of humiliat...
omg, 450k reads!! As little thank you, here's something so many people have requested - the reaction to Chloe's departure from Arlington 💕
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Claire swung her legs beneath her stool, her eyes barely able to focus on the algebraic equation her pen was hovering over. She pulled her lip between her teeth and looked around at her peers.
Something in the world had shifted. Well, at least something in Arlington's. There was no other way to explain the change in power that had happened over the past days, apart from the fact that three students had gone missing.
The boy she loved, his best friend who she'd stupidly hooked up with, and the girl who was best friends with the one who died in junior year.
"What's up?" Jack asked from beside her, his elbow nudging her's.
"Nothing," she said, her small lips returning to a straight line. "It's just, I can't believe so many people have left."
"Zach and Max?" Jack asked, lifting an eye brow. "Only two."
"Three," she said, frowning. "Chloe unenrolled. You didn't know?"
Now he frowned. "No. How do you know?"
"My mom," she said softly, not wanting to catch the attention of the wandering librarians. "Her mom must have told our neighbor who told my mom."
"Interesting," Jack said, his voice distant.
"So you didn't know?" Claire repeated, doodling a star in the corner of her page.
Jack hesitated before shaking his head.
Claire smiled. If Jack didn't know, then nobody knew, which meant for once, she had information. Information was power. She unlocked her phone beneath the table and started texting as many people as she knew.
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Sophie had never learnt from her mistakes. Especially the one which she made much too often. Don't get drunk on a school night.
