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"Oh, the best He just started applying to Yale today, as a matter of fact"

Today? That’s an odd coincidence When I overheard Jack and Evans, Jack seeo So what changed? I narrow ue, right? That’s pretty impressive"

"He’ll apply to Princeton, too, or so he said It would be a huge waste if soht Definitely Is he the first person frolint "Well, not the first There have been three people before him But he’ll be the first in about twenty years, yes"

"That must make you so proud"

"Indeed Extreonna think it’s because of your hs in a fake-modest way "I wouldn’t say that"

And that’s when it hits me

"You have access to everybody’s perer to show off his power, he preens, s hair ineffectually over his bald spot

"Hm? Oh, yes Yes I do"

"So you have everyone’s past schools on record, too"

"Certainly"

"Including mine"

"Yes, that’s how I know you were expelled"

"And I bet that record has soers hovering over the keyboard Gotcha, uess," I say slowly "Jack called you Probably on Sunday He asked you to find old pictures of the fat me, and post thee, he would apply to the Ivy League schools you’ve been harassing him about"

Evans scoffs "That’s nonsense –"

"Is it? Because that picture of me was taken by my old school’s yearbook club, and they put it in the section titled ‘STUDENT FAILSAUCES! XD’"

"What’s an XD?"

"A sideways laughing face of horrendous proportions Don’t change the subject"

"Isis, look, I really wish I could catch whoever did this horrible thing to you But the fact of the ood cans of a break-in –"

"Because no one broke in You just unlocked the gate and doors with your master key A student would’ve had to have broken aor a vent grating or soh of this," Evans snaps "Get out of ht now"