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Mr Collins shook his head "Stay off the roof," he ordered Then he paused "Stay off all the roofs"

The fact that he felt he had to reat deal about Asher Rhodes

"Sir, yes, sir," Asher replied And then, to my shock, Mr Collins left it at that The other teacher didn’t say a word to Asher It was like so to see here on a neon sign The crowd dissipated, and Asher met my eyes and arched a brow

"What just happened here?" I asked Vivvie, bewildered

Vivvie shrugged

"People like me," Asher informed me helpfully "I’rinned like I’d just professed my love for him He lifted the camera up and snapped a picture of me "Give it a couple of days," he told me o for word to get around that I’d taken on Eet the fact that I had not taken on Eh school juniors didn’t just declare the cases" To the Hardwicke student body, the fact that I’d been with Asher and he’d h that I was e h school junior I was Tess Kendrick And between Anna Hayden and E to think that

It was just reeted our classh fives on his way to the seat next to oofy, beatific sratulations," Dr Clark called out at the front of the roo et to turn in your internet censorship essays!"

A round of groans went around the roonment, she turned on a flat-screen television at the front of the room--to CNN

"Prepare wisely," Dr Clark said

Prepare for what? I wondered

"Debates," Vivvie told me helpfully

"We are at the ods," Asher elaborated, twirling a pencil in his fingers like a , we’re discussing"

All around the roo furious notes I had no idea what the people on the screen were talking about Fiveto decipher it, until the show cut one of its hosts offnews," the television declared A wave of unease went through the roo a statement All eyes in the room went immediately to me

No Not to me, I realized To Vivvie

It took me a moment to process the fact that the caption under the man’s name listed his rank (major), his position (White House physician), and his last nareat sadness," the man on-screen said, "that I inform you that Chief Justice Theodore Marquette died on the table a little over an hour ago This was our second attee in the justice’s heart, and there were unforeseen co very, very still Asher stiffened The rest of the room broke into murmurs

On the screen, Major Bharani continued "This country has lost a great man today We ask that you respect his farief"

CHAPTER 14

Justice Marquette’s death was big news at Hardwicke Froather, the still-absent Henry Marquette ell liked--and he’d lost his father the year before Add to that the number of Hardwicke parents ere politicians, journalists, lobbyists, or otherwise entangled with the Powers That Be in Washington, and a dead Supreer