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"So, itʼs no defense," Angel said as if she had just ation

There is no logic quite like kid logic

"Makes perfect sense to uysʼ Especially if weʼre playing those arrogant jerks froic are pretty much synonymous

My brother and sister were al my second (and, to be completely honest, third) sandwich She , which I was not allowed to do under any circumstance Jase had recorded last weekʼs episode of the newest angsty-upper-class-teens-with-major-issues shoere both hooked on and the three of us piled onto his bed with a bag of chocolate chip cookies to watch it

On a nor, but I was grateful for the distraction Thanks to s, I hardly had time to think between Jaseʼs assertions that he only watched the show for the hot chicks (and his long diatribes on the latest plot twists), and Angelʼs nearly three hundred questions that ranged from "Why is your favorite color white instead of pink?" to "What are you going to be when you grow up?"

That night I once again had a vivid, in living Technicolor drea tofor row bored with that routine, so I yelled, "Just tell me at school tomorrow," and walked off into yet another drea hippos

Despite ed to oversleep the next day Jase threatened toto pick an outfit

I fidgeted the entire way through English class What was I going to say to Alex when I saw him? Would he really talk toon between the two of us? As iht actually like me too I didnʼt know quite how to handle that

At first, I was relieved that he wasnʼt waiting for me in Mr Beckʼs class, but relief quickly turned to concern when he failed to make an appearance by the end of class

"Where do you think Alex is today?" I asked Talley ere supposed to be working on our written reviews of the Ta of the Shrew perforuess heʼs still sick," she said, working diligently on her assign to say other than, "It sucked"

"Heʼs sick?"

Talley looked atobvious "Re to pick hi?" Oops

"Oh yeah I ht it was only like a twenty-four hour bug or whatever"

"I guess he rong," Talley said, returning her very focused attention back to the criticism and away from me