#Chapter 230: Maybe You Don’t Blame Piper But I Do

An announcement went out for all the candidates to head to the foyer to receive the results of the most recent event, the ball where we were supposed to look happy. At that same ball, everything sort of fell apart. Joyce declared erroneously that he and I were having an affair. Jane tried to kill me. Jane plummeted off the balcony and then disappeared into thin air curtesy, we suspected, of Hawk himself. I stood between Susie and Veronica in the foyer, with Tiffany nearby. Olivia and Lilliana were nearer the stage, looking bored. Jessica, behind them, looked simultaneously nervous and annoyed. Of everyone here, her situation was probably the worst. She had thought she was making progress with Joyce. She’d had the rug pulled firmly out from under her with Joyce’s sudden declaration. “Thank you for coming today,” Nathan said, speaking into a microphone as he stands on top of the stage. There were no cameras present for today’s announcements, which wasn’t totally unusual for announcem