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I’m worse than the scum on the bottoly well Why a this to Vann??

“Okay, so I’m pretty sure you’ve pushed a tiny snowball at the top of an icy peak,” Kelsey tellsyearbook, “and now it’s rolled down the mountainside and become a boulder of ice”

I can barely focus on typing up an article for the band page of the yearbook, let alone whatever it is Kelsey’s going on about “A boulder of ice …?”

“Yeah, when you said so About et a look at me as she talks “Billy and Tanner are, like, suddenly besties with my dads They talk every day on the phone They even ca on”

“So?” I ask distractedly as I rub e for the twentieth time The words still look scrambled up I’m a terrible writer

Kelsey huffs “Look, if you and Vann are going to be broken-up ex-lovers and sad andfor a new best friend You’re, like, the worst You’re even worse than Lucky when he fell for that banker guy”

I don’t know the first thing about any banker guy “I’m sorry My head is kinda messed up Halloween really … freaked me out”

She studiesto abandon her oork, she scoots her chair around the desk and puts it right in front ofI can do? Should we maybe hit up the movies this weekend? Oh! You can takeame”

I sh and close my layout application on the co for a while”

“At least come to rehearsals,” Kelsey insists “The props don’t paint thely cute face”

I smile It’s forced “Thanks, Kelsey”