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“No idea,” I say, glancing at her. The two of us make our way over to the mass and I reach for her hand. She doesn’t push me away. We wave through the crowd until I see the cause of the disturbance.
I back up, trying to block Harper’s view. She doesn’t need to see this.
She’s frozen in place, her eyes wide. “Who is that? Is that Cain?”
Too late.
I let out a sigh and turn back to where the mangled student is laying sprawled out on the marble floor. A puddle of blood under him means there’s no chance he’s still alive.
“Clear out, get to class, all of you!” The headmaster and a few teachers move in front of the dead kid and push the onlookers back.
Harper is looking up toward the stairway above. “Did he jump?”
“Maybe,” I say, already knowing he didn’t jump.
“Hey, Liam’s back in first place,” a student nearby says.
Harper tenses and she squeezes my hand. I know she heard the other student because she’s dragging me back to the wall with the ranks.
Sure enough, Liam is back in first place. Cain Miller is gone from the ranking. You can’t have a rank if you’re dead.
“Tell me that wasn’t about ranks,” she says.
“Maybe the pressure was too much,” I say.
Her fingernails bite into my hand and I hear her suck in a breath.
“What is it?” I ask but my eye catches it. Harper Love just moved into the top ten.
“How worried should I be?” she asks.
“You’ll be fine,” I say, but I’m not sure she will. The longer she stays there, the greater the risk. Especially since she’s a reform kid. I know how brutal this place can be.
“Maybe you don’t want to pass the test in Professor Lee’s class,” I suggest.
“You might be right,” she says.
