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In what I can only conclude was the product of a great deal of rehearsal, the other boys chorused in unison, “The ho for Toby Klein She be worth her weight in pirate’s gold Arrrrrr!”

What wasa coe anyone to vote for me? That was insane Or, at least, I hoped it was insane, because if by some le person to writeto stuff not one, but both of my poms into a part of his anatomy where the sun doesn’t shine

“Arrrr!”

To her credit, Chloe didn’t so e portion of the student body followed her lead Still, I couldn’t help but notice as we left the cafeteria that a disturbing a Noah on

As Chloe and I walked toward the vice-principal’s office, the silence between us was nearly tangible, but I finally broke it

“If there was a way to deport ht?” That was about asto be stuck in the saet rid of any latent hostilities first

“If you win ho queen,” Chloe snipped, “I’ll deport him myself”

So about the expression on her face convincedthat seniorpeople, because I couldn’t actually let someone ship my brother off the continent

Chloe rolled her eyes and snorted simultaneously “Gullible much?”

Chloe’s tone reconfirs for me First, that when it came to me, hostility was Chloe’s middle name, and second, thatsituation had been entirely accurate

Things were definitely going to get ugly

On the plus side, though, talking Mr J into excusing us from our last two classes turned out to be a piece of cake After all, heaven forbid we run out of banner paint!

“You do realize hoisted this is, right?” I didn’t particularly want to talk to Chloe, but once ere safely away from the office, I couldn’t keep the opinion to myself

“Don’t look a gift vice-principal in the libly Almost belatedly, she rolled her eyes, as if she’d re to and that an eye roll was the et that this is ridiculous We all do We’re not stupid” Chloe paused as the two of us entered the Quad, and when she continued, her voice was slightly less blatantly nasty and“Look at it this way—if Jacobson didn’t have a job at Bayport, he’d have a job somewhere else, and the cheerleaders at that school probably wouldn’t be skipping class to deal with terrorist threats”

That was, in all likelihood, an understatement

All things considered, though, it was a miracle that none of the other parents had ever coain, if any of the parents did co the varsity squad, about the blatant favoritisle noncheerleader no Guys Upstairs would probably just pull sos and have that parent transferred out of the Bayport school district, the saed to have me transferred in