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"I just o," I say "My mother and I had a pretty shitty year last year, so Ito school there, but felt like it was time to come back ho to scowl at me, but the expression sheI keepthis school thing seriously "None of that explains why you decided to drop out, rather than just transfer back"
She’s right, but only because I really don’t know the answer to her question
"I don’t know To be honest, I’ to decide what I want to do It’s been a pretty fucked-up year Not to mention I hate this school I’m tired of the bullshit and sometimes I think it would be easier to just test out"
She stops dead in her tracks again and glares at me "That’s a crap excuse"
"It’s crap that I hate high school?"
"No It’s crap that you’re letting one bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life You’re nine raduation, so you drop out? It’s justit’s stupid"
She’s really taking this seriously I laugh, even though I’ really hard not to "Well, when you put it so eloquently"
She crosses her ar school is just giving in You’re proving everyone that’s ever doubted you right"
Her eyes drop to the tattoo on my arm I’ve never wanted to hide it until thisit seems like an invasion of privacy in a way Maybe because I was so certain yesterday that she was half the reason for the tattoo on my arm But now that I know she’s not, I really don’t want her asking about it "You’re gonna drop out and show the world just how hopeless you really are? Way to stick it to ’em"
I look down at the tattoo She has no idea what theis behind it and I realize that But her assu other than what it means sort of pisses me off I don’t want to explain it to her and I certainly don’t want to be judged by soments Rather than stick around and allow her to decipher e my head toward her house "You’re here," I say flatly I turn around and head toward hoet too detailed with her, anyway, until I find out more about her relationship with Grayson And in order to do that, I need to hurry up and get back to e in time for my first and possibly only day of senior year
This is a large school, which is why I didn’t expect to actually have a class with her, an, to top it off
She didn’t seem too happy to see me, either And the fact that she just practically ran past et out of the classroom doesn’t seem to bode well I pick up my textbook and make my way out of the classrooht to find her, instead
She’s facing her locker, switching books I walk up behind her but pause for a ive her a chance to get what she needs fro her to her next class
"Hey, you," I say optimistically There’s a pause
"You came," she says, her voice cool and co her eyes again ainst the locker next to hers and tilt ainst the coldin the fact that she somehow looks even better after a shower
"You clean up nice Although, the sweaty version of you isn’t so bad, either," I say, s off her, but nothing see inme or did you actually re-enroll?" she asks
A joke She ainst theat her but she won’t maintain eye contact with me for more than two seconds She shifts her feet and looks nervously around us
"Well, I need to get to class," she says, her voiceweird "You’re being weird"
She rolls her eyes and turns back to her locker "I’ly
"Nope," I say "It’s so?"
My persistence seeainst the locker and looks up at me "You want me to be honest?"
"That’s all I ever want you to be"
She purses her lips together "Fine," she says "I don’t want to give you the wrong idea You flirt and say things like you have intentions withto reciprocate And you’re"
She doesn’t want to giveidea? Who is this and what the hell did she do with the girl as blatantly flirting with ht? I narrowher to finish her thought
"You’reintense Too intense AndI just don’t want you getting the wrong idea"