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My face turns as red as the cup of cherry Jell-O on ”

“It’s okay I won’t tell no one So you guys have chemistry?”

My eyes flash “What?”

“Cheonna eat that?” She snatches my untouched Jell-O and shoves it into her backpack “So I want to knohat he’s like Did you ask hi? Get to know him?”

“Not … Not really” The co to their fifth periods all around me has uess”

“‘He’s cool, you guess’ …?”

“He likes to draw He’s … quiet, though”

“What else? C’mon Give me the juicy stuff”

“But I don’t have juicy stuff Let’s go” I rise froet to class We’re already a few ain, not afternearly all of it yesterday”

“You should have lunch with his me out of the cafeteria “He could probably use a friend He has none, and now that he’s unwisely poked the football team beast and invoked the wrath of the principal …”

“Oh, it’s fine,” I assure her “The principal didn’t punish him”

Kelsey frowns “What’re you talking about? ‘Course he did”

I shake my head “Nope He wasn’t punished at all Vann even said so, today in chemistry”

“But he did,” she insists, stopping in the ood buds with the principal, tolddinner”

Now I stop Students push their way around us, hurrying to class Just a coupleare so far behind me now “What do you mean?”