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"She said she was going to"

"I bet they class it as a crime of passion"

"Don’t they say that nine out of ten victiht that sorittedirl looked away quickly, giggling with her friends that I’d just given her a death glare

"Stabbed repeatedly apparently Blood everywhere A friend of my mom’s was the one that found her, said she looked like she’d been gutted," a freshman muttered to his friend off to one side Voes of Sandy strewn out in some dark alleyith knife wounds swam before my eyes

"I spoke to Maisie once, she seeo crazy like this"

Tears of indignation stung ed hi about me like that They’d listen to hi on his every word because of that

He lifted his chin, looking out over the people that were standing around watching us carefully "What the hell are you all thinking it’s Maisie for? It wasn’t her so just stop with the gossip and go to class!" he ordered No one moved so he scowled around at the crowd "She ith o find some other innocent person to pin it on because you’re all behaving like a bunch ofnot to act surprised at his revelations I’d just told him that I didn’t want to lie and say he ithrateful that he had lied for me At least now people would have to look elsewhere for who had done it Hopefully that would quash the ridiculous accusations towards me before it reached the police officers, and I was incorrectly arrested for so I hadn’t done

Luke threw his ar his other arh the croardshis shirt tightly incontinued - but noas different, people were asking who it was if it wasn’tthat it could have been anyone By the tih to wherewilder and wilder, I even heard one guy joke that maybe Sandy was a whore and was murdered by her pietically "I’reed that ouldn’t, but I couldn’t just let people look at you like that I’ fors and my knees went a little weak, probably from the lack of food and the shock of what I’d heard

He chuckled h his chest His hand closed aroundet adown at me wickedly

I s "Some other time, I’m too exhausted to cuss you out today"

"See you at lunch," he said as the second bell went, signalling he was now late for his class which was half way around the building frooodbye as he turned and ran off I took a few deep breaths, steelingto see people now and had no Luke to lean on and hide behind

What I’d forgotten though when I’d hardenedto encounter in my first class, was that Sandy shared this class with me