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couple of kids snicker, followed by a wad of paper whacking lanced around the room, but everyone was laser-focused on their experiaze quickly before glancing away again

Frowning, I unraveled the ball of paper Inside was a rather crude rendition of a girl strangling someone I had no doubts about who the two people were supposed to be

From over my shoulder, Carson snatched the paper away I expected hih, but instead, he whipped around to the sound of Tasha and her partner’s laughter and barked out, “Knock it off, guys” Then he strode over to the trash can and threw it inside

When he returned, I avoided his eye “Um, thanks”

“People haven’t been bugging you about that, have they?”

“No,” I lied, mostly because other than Tasha’s rather defunct art skills, Macky was the only one to pick onmean was just a part of who he was

“Good,” he said “Because if they were, they’d have to answer to me”

Then he pointed to our lab sheets and started on our experiment

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School on Friday was uneventful, thank goodness No one said anything else about the gym incident, and only a few people commented on my eye The rest probably had already chalked it up to just another fight between us After all, it was no secret ere enemies

I spentout with Ethan Sunday was no exception, and we spent theabout in his room since the weather was cold and rainy At theup at the ceiling, thinking of how much cooler Carson’s room was compared to his—not that I would ever tell Ethan that

I groaned and shookinto my bowl “I don’t want tomorrow to be Monday”

“Why? You have a killer test or so a handful of chips

“No I promised Mrs Parks I’d come to school early so I could show a newb around the school” And if tomorrow’s Monday, that meant today was Sunday, and the ti

“Oh” Ethan wiggled his brows “New guy?”