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“Poor little snowflake,” I snap. “He had it coming, since he probably stole my notes, anyway. I don’t want anything to do with people who seem happy enough to inflict violence.”
“Li’s the violent one,” Finlay says, sticking up for his friend again and again. “Rory just takes the piss. He’s harmless, really.”
“Harmless.” My voice is like acid.
“Look, other than you and Becca by default, I huvnae liked any o’ the girls here. They’re all mental. But Li is on another level.”
“I mean, that could have something to do with being stuck in a backward institution like Lochkelvin, where having large amounts of estrogen puts you on a level with the cockroaches here.” I shake my head. “You don’t see it from our perspective. You think you’re all so goddamn invincible.”
“Maybe she’s right,” Danny says nervously, looking at Finlay as though for permission to speak. “You should be nicer to the girls.”
“Well, we cannae startnoo, can we? They hate us, and so many o’ us hatethem. Especially after trashing oor dorm. It’ll never work.”
Danny sighs. “If we’d been true from the start, more inclusive and welcoming, then the students wouldn’t be at war with each other.”
He looks over at me, as though searching for confirmation. “It’s notwar. It’s about oppression and basic misogyny.”
“Fascism, in other words,” Finlay adds brightly.
But I’m still stuck on Danny’s use of the wordtrue.
I should tell the truth.
I should get over myself.
I need to tell Luke and Becca the truth.
