Root: Part II, Chapter 2
As Hasta and her friends regroup in the faculty lounge, bruised feelings and secrets complicate their attempts to strategize for survival.
For more on this project, please see “This Year a Serial Takes Root.”
2.0 Hasta
Hasta stared at her haggard face in the girls’ room mirror. The fluorescent lighting turned her skin sallow and greenish. Her hair was messed up and coming loose from her ponytail, dark bags underhung her eyes, and an ugly bruise was blooming on her cheek where Dennis Clegg ha…
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