Vanessa Keeps Messing with Jaden

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The next day, it all seems like a strange dream. All she knows is that she wakes up into a nightmare with no end. First there’s the brain-splitting headache, then her parents furious at her—grounded forever after her mom caught her sexting and too far gone to care.

At school, she’s the one avoiding everyone today, but her luck turns even worse after lunch. She sees Jaden with his friends in the hall, and one of them nods at her and they all break up laughing. 

By sixth period, she gets what it’s about—and it’s not her imagination that people are laughing. She knows this because Mariah finally texts her, sending a photo that has been making the rounds. It’s Vanessa, naked and making duck face, which she only vaguely remembers sending to Jaden.

Vanessa barely makes it through the school day. How can one bad mistake turn into a disaster that can wreck your whole life?