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Only when the o did he try to catch Shen's eye Like all the other boys, he atching Bernard and his cronies laugh and joke,fun of the math teacher, who often stopped in midsentence and looked around as if he had been let off the bus at the wrong stop and didn't knohere he was

Eventually, though, Shen glanced around Ender nodded to him, pointed to his desk, and smiled Shen looked puzzled Ender held up his desk a little and then pointed at it Shen reached for his own desk Ender sent the e then Shen saw it alhed aloud He looked at Ender as if to say, Did you do this? Ender shrugged, to say, I don't knoho did it but it sure wasn't me

Shen laughed again, and several of the other boys ere not close to Bernard's group got out their desks and looked Every thirty seconds the e appeared on every desk, marched around the screen quickly, then disappeared The boys laughed together

"What's so funny?" Bernard asked Enderwhen Bernard looked around the roo the fear that so many others felt Shen, of course, smiled all the more defiantly It took aout a desk Together they read the e

COVER YOUR BUTT BERNARD IS WATCHING

--GOD

Bernard went red with anger "Who did this!" he shouted

"God," said Shen

"It sure as hell wasn't you," Bernard said "This takes too much brains for a worm"

Ender's e from Bernard appeared on his desk

I KNOW IT WAS YOU

--BERNARD

Ender didn't look up He acted, in fact, as if he hadn't seen the uilty He doesn't know

Of course, it didn't matter if he knew Bernard would punish him all thehe couldn't stand was having the other boys laughing at hiot knocked down in the shower thatOne of Bernard's boys pretended to trip over hied to plant a knee in his belly Ender took it in silence He was still watching, as far as the open as concerned He would do nothing

But in the other war, the war of desks, he already had his next attack in place When he got back fro at boys "I didn't write it! Shut up!"