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Anyway, high school wouldn’t last forever Soh school crumble into destruction had made it clear to Skye just how temporary all that stuff was Five and a half months: She could do it

If she could just not be attacked by anyfor third period, she checked her schedule to remind herself what caht sourly that she’d already educated herself about sex, for all the good it did her, but whatever Then she walked in to see that Craig and Britnee were both in this class, too

Fantastic She’d have to listen to sex ed lectures while watching the only guy she’d ever had sex with flirt with the girl he was hang sx with now

But only after class began did Skye realize the worst of it

"We’reinto more sensitive subjects now," Ms Loos said She was sort of attractive, at least for a teacher, with her blond hair and her leopard-print skirt, and she perched on the edge of her desk like she didn’t knoould s "I’ve had most of you all year, and I know you’reon all of you to be on your best behavior"

The janitor walks in, his face gray, his eyes unfocused So, but he doesn’t realize it yet He only thinks he’s tired--tired of cleaning up after stupid kids, tired of pushing around that broom, tired down to his bones

Stop it, Skye told herself It’s not real; you know it’s not real!

But his death already surrounded her

Pain lashes through hi his ars won’t take in air Suffocation hurts The blood vessels in his eyes are starting to burst

"You, in the back?" Ms Loos stared at Skye, who realized the entire class was staring right along with her She’d clutched the top of her desk as if it were a life preserver in a storonies still washed over her She could see hi to his knees behind Ms Loos, there and yet not there "Is there a proble to keep her attention on the here and now "No, ma’am"

Ms Loos folded her arms, the hint of a smile around her dark-lined lips "If you find the subject of sex distressing, come and talk with led, and Skye turned red She couldn’t help feeling like Ms Loos washelp Fabulous