Chapter Sixteen

Waking up the morning of the new week left me feeling queasy.

There was no way today could go down smoothly. I was convinced that I would be eliminated but when they announced someone else’s name, I was left speechless. I honestly thought it would be me since I had revealed last week between Cynthia and Juan. Now that I wasn’t sent home, I was left up late at night wondering why it was not me.

Cynthia has been ignoring me. In fact, she had been ignoring everyone, going cold and distant to even her closest friends. But none of them had glares sent their way when passing her in the hall. Something was up and I had a feeling that it would go down this morning, at the next meeting in the gym.

Boy, I was right.

Trailing behind everyone, I wandered into the gym, head hung low. At this point, I couldn’t care less what the next part of the competition was. I had an inkling that Juan would keep terrorizing me by giving me the hardest time until I eventually left the competition on my own m