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31. We're Just Friends
“No you didn’t!” I exclaim, looking wide eyed at Nicki. It’s lunch time and we are in the courtyard outside the dining hall. We didn’t get to talk after assembly, which ended way into the first lesson and we had to rush straight to class.
The courtyard is barren of students given the July cold that’s already creeped into the end of June, giving proper privacy for whatever juicy stories she has for me.
She giggles, throwing her head back. “I so did. It was all Simon’s idea, however, but I was glad to hop in.”
I pout. “Of course.”
While I had been lying all bored in my room on Saturday night, my two friends were sneaking out to attend a very illegal house party.
“And let me guess, Cole was there too, right?” I prod, trying to sound annoyed at the fact that I’m just finding out about th
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