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"What about other people’s secrets? Have you told him about the tea what Dr Lee was insinuating Did he think Violet was revealing top-secret information to Jay? She understood that she needed to be discreet; Sara had been more than clear that what they did at the Center was confidential
"He knows I’ Or what anyone else is doing either I haven’t told hi questioned Dr Lee was supposed to be helping her He was supposed to be on her side, wasn’t he?
His face s placid, unruffled He was obviously satisfied by her answer and he leaned back, running his palm over his too-crisp, too-blue jeans as if there"What about the other team members? You’ve said before that you don’t think some of the trouble fitting in?"
Violet was flustered by the change of topic, and she wondered if her confusion--and her s about his questions--were siirl she’d discovered the day before Clarity wasn’t exactly her strong suit in the wake of finding a body
Besides, she supposed it was Dr Lee’s job to dig into her personal life, to pry And she res easier for her
An ih Violet’s one out of her way to make Violet feel unwelcoroup Violet kept hoping that soe between them, that maybe Ge up to new people, and that eventually her cool exterior would thaw and they’d find a way to get along Or at least be civil to each other
But so far, all she’d gotten from Gemma were icy stares and cold shoulders
On the flip side, there were Sam and Krystal and Rafe
Violet didn’t know Sam all that well yet--she’d only met him a few times--but what she knew of him, she liked With Krystal, it was different She’d felt that instant connection In some ways, Krystal reminded Violet of her best friend, Chelsea Well, in the sense that she was loud and sort of obnoxious But that was pretty much where the siht of as overbearing--and probably tried to be, for the most part--Krystal was oblivious to it She would probably feel terrible if she realized how disruptive she tended to be Even when she was trying to be quiet, Violet realized early on that Krystal see Add that to her loud sense of style--her constantly changing hair colors and lipsticks, her brightly colored tights and biker boots, and s--and Krystal stood out like a sore thu, soothing It was a strange co His intense blue eyesinto her whenever he watched her And even now, her fingers tingled as if they’d just brushed against him, despite the fact that he was nowhere nearThat phantom spark
What was that all about anyway? That static she felt whenever their skin met? She didn’t understand it, yet she knew she wasn’t the only one aware of it Rafe had to sense it too She’d seen it in his reaction, watched him flinch in response But neither of them ever mentioned it, like an unspoken secret
"It’s better," Violet lied "I think I was just nervous at first" She purposely avoided saying Geh dra the incident in PE with Jacqueline