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"Where the Weatherman kicked their butts!" so A few people patted the shoulders of a tall, handso his head in not entirely falsechart to see that this was WEATHERS, CRAIG… Skye’s ex, he realized Not that he should care one way or the other

"Okay, everyone, settle down" That was definitely a teacherish thing to say "Basketball is over, and Colonial History Honors Seun Let’s see, what do we have here, chapter one is … freedori "And how they caion for everybody?"

"Well, that’s not true," Balthazar said "Seriously, does it say that?"

Everyone in the class see around at one another--except Skye, as now hiding a smile behind her hand Madison Findley piped up: "Yeah, it does I ht?"

"No That was--as far froh that first chapter, which had been written by so And that’s not--Good God, it’s all wrong Coirl (who chart called FONG, BRITNEE) said, "Then why did they come?"

"The reason the Godly--wait, let me back up The Puritans didn’t call theiven to them by people who disliked theh he’d fallen into the trap of using it himself, in the centuries since: The present always exercised a kind of tyranny over the past, all-knowing, invariably right "The reason nobody liked them was because they were convinced they knew the only true way to God, the only true way for people to live They didn’t coion; they cadom of God on earth They could worship as they chose, but anybody else who came to that territory--or, in the case of the Native A to have to worship in the same way Even other Christians weren’t welcome Roman Catholics in particular"

Soood way, as if they were actually sort of interested against their will Balthazar decided to go with it He shut the idiotic book and just went to the board If the best way to handle this class was to talk about what he already knew, fine

"The Puritans called the it on the board All around hih Their eyes locked for an instant, long enough for Balthazar to realize how good it felt to know at least one person understood that he was telling his own truth

By the study hall at the end of the day, Balthazar was feeling pretty good about the whole teacher thing--at least until Skye walked into the library, and how could that skirt possibly have become shorter since homeroom? It had to have There was no way she could’ve walked around like that for hours without being spoken to Or possibly arrested

Balthazar realized that was partly the old-fashioned side of hi--her skirt was short but not indecent The obscenity of it wasn’t the length of the hehts that he straight home after school Madison asked me over, but I told her I still feel weird You didn’t tellover there!

Haven’t had much chance Listen, are you okay?

Yeah The vision in Ms Loos’s class today was intense, but since I fainted yesterday at the gae I think everybody thinks I’ I should be transferred out of there by the end of the week, though