Catching the Falling Star
Language: en
During finals week, the campus queen bee was caught cheating. Crying, she claimed I forced her to do it. She even pulled out medical records, falsely accusing me of driving her to depression. "Why won't you just admit it? Are you trying to force me to die?" With those words, she took another step toward the edge of the roof. My boyfriend didn't even ask for my side of the story before demanding I take the blame: "Riley, that's a human life! How can you be so cold-blooded?" Everyone around me urged me to remember that a life was more important than anything else. I gave a sinister smile.…