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"Sam!" Becky yelled after h the restaurant

CHAPTER FOUR

I slept alone that night and received a few text es from Mason The dinner with their mother went as well as he assumed Horrible She didn’t like our relationship Mason didn’t care I asked if Logan said anything, and he responded with a bunch of curse words That brought a sht was still lonely

At school the next , I was surprised when Peter and Emily sat beside me in my first class They’d never done it before and when I asked why, Erinned "You’re in the Elite What do you expect?"

Peter scowled "We stick to our own"

He didn’t look happy about it

"I told you guys to screw off"

Eed as the class started "Wouldn’t be the first tiroup"

"What about Miranda?"

Peter clenched his jaw and turned away Eave me an eye roll "Still in She knows too much What do you do?"

And like that, I was in I wasn’t sure how I felt about it, but it seemed like a done deal The rest of the school seemed to already know When I left for my next class, the crowd parted for me I was alone this time

Cassandra and Mark sat with me in my next class, and the day followed like that I was about to head into the cafeteria with Becky when I stopped in my tracks Lydia and Jessica stood there They looked like they were headed the opposite way Jessica froze and the blood drained froave me a look that was half a scowl and half a sed on lanced back Lydia and Jessica both watched us but turned back quickly and hurried away

That seemed to be the official end of my friendship with those two They acted like they never knew me for the rest of the day After my last class, they parted with the crowd, and I was another member of the Elite to them

In some ways, it was sad to ossip about the Elite before, and I wondered if they would gossip about me now I didn’t care either way, but it felt odd to me

When I headed to my car, Adam fell in step with me