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With his arirl he’d dumped Skye for

Skye felt like a bucket of cold water had been dumped over her head--both shocked and hu to freeze her in place Craig looked aeous eyes, his dark skin warainst the white sweater he wore beneath his letter jacket Every inch of him was familiar to her--too familiar It was Britnee who surprised her, soht and whose Facebook profile photos were all, frustratingly, pictures of her cat

And Britnee was even cuter than she’d dreaded: stylish boho clothes, a pixie haircut that framed her face perfectly, and the sa for weeks She was a little heavier than Skye had iht places, boobs and butt--a girl uy never would

It would’ve been bad enough even if she’d been able to duck away before they saw her, but she wasn’t Craig stopped in his tracks, and Britnee looked up at hi, "Ohhhh" Like it hadn’t occurred to either of theossip mill in Darby Glensrin "Skye Hey"

"Hey" She shunted the books over to her hip and looked past hi to make it clear that there was somewhere else she had to be As in anywhere else that was not here

"U was one of those girls who pronounced every single sentence like it was a question Proof positive that she was both irritating and an airhead "I’ve heard lots of aweso irlfriend Super classy "That’s nice See you later" Skye stalked past theht her first class was The buzzing in her head that was half anger, half pain muted the noise in the hallway around her

At least you’re safe here, she told herself, thinking back to last night in the snow and the vae s

Her first class was the Colonial History Honors Seminar, which meant that would be her homeroo, but the sheer boringness of it struck her all over again After two and a half years at Evernight Acadelass s, carved wood banisters, and arched ceilings--Skye found Darby Glen High so ugly that she wondered if it had been built this way on purpose, as a kind of punishment for its students Cinder block walls with murals that hadn’t been painted recently or well, lockers the color of asphalt that soed in a jail ht: Every single bit of it was depressing

It hadn’t seemed that way to her back when she was at theBut after Evernight--

After the school filled with ghosts? And varateful for a little nore … after a while

Finally, only a couple ed to find her classroo and Britnee were already in there, in the front row, side by side Of course She ain as she hurried to a desk in the back

A girl with long, curly red hair who sat in front of her turned and whispered, "Hey What’s with the dra and Britnee? I saw that standoff in the hallway It was like a shoot-out in a Western or soirl’s business, but the description made Skye smile a little despite herself She’d needed a so out He dumped me for her We just hadn’t seen each other since, is all"

"Oh, so you’re Skye" The girl nodded, as if satisfied Obviously the Darby Glen gossip mill wasn’t totally out of commission after all "Well, I’m Madison Findley We just moved here last summer Listen, if you ever need anybody to run interference between you and your ex, or that fat cow he’s with, just letto ured--and she did, a little "Thanks"

The chatter in the room stilled as their teacher caly nearly as wide His bristly beard created the illusion that his jaw jutted out like a bulldog’s His dark eyes swept the rooht for a rifle

On the board, the teacher wrote his na that nobody laughed at that nauy you wanted to catch you in the act of texting

After that, the norot started, and Skye felt herself relaxing a little bit, particularly when it turned out that she knew exactly nobody in her calculus class and could sit in the back, enjoying the relief of solitude

Okay, so, Craig and Britnee were in her homeroom She didn’t have to sit near them or talk to them, and she already had a new friend to distract her, so that was all right Maybe she’d get lucky and they wouldn’t be in any other classes with her Some people had it in their heads that she was a snob, but they’d probably forget about that soon enough Probably