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“Kiran,” Taylor said in a warning tone. Everyone looked at her.
My fingers curled into fists. I was already entirely on edge, but Interesting. Scolding was usually Ariana’s job. Apparently Taylor this was enough to send me over. They couldn’t mess with people’s was feeling sorry for me after witnessing my breakup and break-lives like this. Okay, maybe I had let them mess with mine, but that down. Had she not told everyone else about what had happened, or was my decision. And at least everything I’d done for them in the past did they just not care?
had benefited them in some way. Running for food, breaking up with Noelle stepped forward and looked down her nose at me. “We
guys, keeping Kiran’s secrets, stealing tests. . . . Well, except for that.
have another job for you.”
But when they had asked me to do it, it had ostensibly been for their I stared back at her in stoic silence.
benefit. But there was no way I was going to help them get a man fired
“You know that Thermos that Mr. Barber is always carrying?”
just for fun. No matter how much of an ass he was.
she said.
“No thanks,” I said, turning to go.
“Yeah.”
“What?” Kiran snapped.
What did they want me to do? Steal that, too?
“I thought you hated the guy,” Noelle said.
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I paused and tipped my head back. “So what?” I asked the sky.
one. I could see the doubt in their eyes. The absolute belief that I
“So . . . why not get him booted?” Taylor said.
would cave. It only made my conviction stronger. I was sick of them
“He deserves it,” Ariana put in. “After what he did to you.”
screwing with me. Of the Billings Girls and Thomas and everyone at
“What he did to me?” I said, turning to face them.
this damn school thinking it was perfectly fine to mess with the new
“On the first day of classes,” Ariana said, staring through me.
girl’s head. “There are certain things even I won’t do.”
“How do you know about that?” I demanded, letting my voice get My legs shook as I turned away from them. Turned away from