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                                                      CHAPTER ONE






                       Before


                       Someone had written 'slut' on Magda's locker again. I watched her try to scrape it off with

               the zipper of her makeup bag.


                       Last time she'd cried, but there weren't any tears in her dark eyes this time, and instead of

               being flushed, her cheeks were actually pale. They were getting to her, I realized. Wearing her


               down.

                       I pulled a sharpie from my bag, walked up beside her and changed the 'u' to an 'a' and

               added an 'e' at the end.


                       "Slate?" She asked.


                       "Sure," I said, my mind frantically reaching for an explanation that might please her. "As

               in clean."

                       Her face darkened. "I'm not the one who got a clean slate. They did." But she didn't go


               back to scraping.

                       I didn't know what to do. It seemed like I couldn’t do anything right lately. I hadn't since


               the night my best friend was raped and images of it uploaded to the internet. Besides me, and

               Magda's family, no one really seemed to believe she'd been raped at all. In fact, the boys who did


               it said she'd wanted to have sex with all four of them, and the entire school believed them, even

               though Magda hadn't so much as gone out on a date with a guy before that night. It was easier to
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