Chapter 13: Mathilda

Everly was having a hard time believing what she’d just heard Alyson say. “Jack? Is your brother?”

“Yeah, that’s right,” Alyson said as if it made perfect sense that the person in the school who had been the nicest to her and the person in the world who had been the meanest to her could be related.

Still thinking about how strange that was, Everly went to her locker to get her schedule and realized she had choir next, so that was a relief. She loved choir and was glad she wouldn’t need to take anything with her, except for the paper that she needed to have signed by the teacher, Ms. Vander.

It wasn’t too hard to find the music room. She’d seen signs for it earlier. When she walked in and saw Alyson sitting with a couple of other girls Everly didn’t know, she was relieved to see a familiar face. She waited for the teacher to finish the conversation she was having with some other students and then look ov