11 Rumor 5 (1/2)

After giving the crowd an appropriately long time to process the information she revealed Sarah decided she should use the opportunity to paint herself in a good light so that more people would be interested in her and want to work with her.

”The reason I've chosen to reveal this is not just because I suffered at Aria's hands personally. I also realized that I had a responsibility as one of the people who knew about it to do everything I could put an end to it. Not just for the good of us all, either. I feel like it's my responsibility as someone who used to be friends with you, Aria, to do this so you can get better.”

When she finished speaking she turned to Aria and gave her a sad smile, her eyes wet with held back tears.

Everyone who saw her couldn't help but sympathize with this poor girl. She was doing all of this in the name of justice to help those who've been hurt, including the one she's revealing.

Not only that, many students in the crowd realized that she wasn't from a large or influential family and must be there through hard work and was no risking it all to go against this giant.

They began to see this girl in a new light, at first they assumed she was doing this for revenge against Aria for wronging her, but the more they saw the more the felt ashamed for their earlier views.

Slowly, the majority of the room turned condemning gazes full of hatred and disgust towards Aria. Even after committing so many wrongs, she was now causing this poor girl to risk her future for the sake of justice and even then as someone who had been hurt by Aria still spoke out in her defense and wants her to get better.

The longer the crowd thought about it, the stronger their feelings that Aria needed to be punished severely grew.

”Expel her!”

”Let everyone see how dirty she is!”

”Slut!”