WEST BROOK HIGH

CHAPTER ONE

THE GIRL WHO WALKED INTO CHAOS

Kiara Bennett had been at Westbrook Academy for exactly eleven minutes when she realized two things.

First, she was definitely going to get lost.

Second, she was probably going to get in trouble.

“Excuse me,” she said, stopping a passing student. “Do you know where Room 204 is?”

The student pointed down the hallway.

“Second floor. Left.”

“Thanks!”

Kiara turned.

Walked three steps.

Then stopped.

“Wait... which way is the second floor?”

The student had already disappeared.

Kiara sighed.

“Great.”

That was how her first day at Westbrook Academy began.

Not with a dramatic entrance.

Not with instant popularity.

But with Kiara wandering around the school holding a timetable upside down.

Eventually, she found her classroom.

And that’s where she met Sophie Grant.

Sophie looked at Kiara’s timetable.

“It’s upside down.”

Kiara looked down.

“Oh.”

Sophie smiled.

“You’re new, aren’t you?”

“Is it that obvious?”

“Only slightly.”

And just like that, Kiara had her first friend.

She didn’t know it yet, but Sophie was about to become the person who would spend the entire year saying:

“Kiara, that’s a terrible idea.”

And Kiara would spend the entire year ignoring her.