I had two choices: Stay where I'm at and plunge first into a scandalous disaster that would forever leave a stain on my record or leave and start fresh at an entirely new school. I wanted none of those two choices but I had nothing to do since l brought the disaster to myself.

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"Rianna, do we have a deal?", I stared up into dean's cold eyes as he glanced over his desk at me. His jaw was wound tight and if he was a bomb, he would have exploded in less than five minutes. He had been talking for a good time but l was lost in my...