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It’s hard to think of Dr Hayden that way I can feel Michael next to me, really next to me, and I know I should stop before he seesat that?" Michael asks His voice is flat I make the browser disappear, but it’s too late

"I don’t knoas just--" And then I say sorandparents are dead too"

"Let’s see what happens e Google you," he says He shuts down the gale, and types in h-school-reunion site The second is the YourSpace page He s ant the world to see is al to show"

"At least your future e off the co better to do, and Michael does the sa at the blank screens

"Do you usually do this with your free period? Come in here and play solitaire?"

"Mostly," Michael says "Lately, I’ve been writing"

"That’s right I haven’t seen you scribbling in the cafeteria lately"

"Well, there was this hostile alien takeover atyour journal into this school If I did, it’d be gone in a second"

"Nobody’s interested in my secrets," he reminds me "They’re afraid of thereat school shooting That’s what people think of you" Pause "Because of rees

He looks at me The h It’s not funny, but the tension is killing , and my whole chest is pins and needles, and I really feel like I’et up and I just leave him there, hat I really want to do is tell him I’ to him I don’t kno it could

"I think he’s into me," Anna says, and then she raises her voice so

I can hear "Josh"

I take the bait I look up Postgyed in the corner, glies into a soft, blush-pink sweater They’re all in pink today

Jeanette catches es Marta

"Dyke," Jeanette spits in my direction Anna yanks her shirt down quickly, like I’ive a daet hiht? It doesn’tfull of people; what you say when you’re alone, that htens her sweater "But I don’t want to look desperate"

"You’re chasing after my castoffs," I say I shouldn’t, but I can’t resist "I think it’s already too late"

"Do you hear souys, listen to this: Did you know Donnie totally tried to rape Regina?"

They laugh I grip the edges of the bench, riding out a wave of anger that gives hing

They think it’s funny

Kara studies her reflection in theon the wall, a pink sweater clutched in one hand Spidery, silvery lines snake up the sides of her flat, undefined sto," she lued to the bench in this rage, torn between getting up and leaving or attacking her I can’t figure out how to roup thing and then, at some point, we’ll disappear You’ll have hienius," Anna says "But I can’t wait that long" She pauses "Maybe I’ll drive to his place tonight"