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“On your next exam, you will be asked about the differences between mitosis and meiosis, so I suggest that all of you go home and study this weekend. This will be one of the hardest exams of the semester,” Mr. Barnes, my Bio teacher, said.
I wrote down a couple notes in my planner and glanced over at Allie, who stared at him with wide, scared eyes, as if she wouldn’t get a hundred percent on his tests like she always did. My lips curled into a small smile, and I turned back to the front.
“Did you see Carter’s face?” Jenny whispered behind us to her friend.
“Someone fucked him up bad,” another student whispered.
All people had talked about today was how badly Carter, Redwood’s most idiotic quarterback, had gotten beat up the other night. I didn’t care much for drama, but I ate this up like it was damn chocolate because I hated Carter.
Everyone did.
He deserved to get fucked.
I leaned closer to Allie. “Have you seen him yet? I heard he looks like shit.”
Allie swallowed hard and shook her head. “No, I’m too nervous to see.”
“Why?” I asked, grinning now. “He’s a dick.”
“Because I think that Jace did—”
Mr. Barnes cleared his throat and narrowed his eyes at Allie. “Do you have a question?”
Jenny and the other student pressed their lips together and looked at Allie, as if she were the only one who had been talking during the lecture and not them too. Ugh, bitches like them annoyed the shit out of me.
Allie shook her head and took one for the entire Biology class. “No, sir.”
After Mr. Barnes grimaced and looked away, she slumped down in her seat and rested her head against my shoulder. I took down the rest of the notes in class, knowing that I needed to ace this exam or else Mom would really kill me this time.
“Class is dismissed,” Mr. Barnes said once he finished talking. “Allie, stay behind. We need to chat.”
All the blood drained from Allie’s face.
When everyone started packing up their materials, I glanced over at her. “What’s that all about?” I asked, pulling off my reading glasses and placing them into my case.
“I don’t know,” Allie said, gathering her belongings and walking up to Mr. Barnes’s desk. “I’ll meet you in the hall.”
After taking one last look at her, I walked out of the classroom and stood by the door. Students rushed around me to get to their next period class, loud chatter echoing through the hallways.
Suddenly, all the chatter stopped.
I glanced up from my phone to see Carter walking down the hallways with both his eyes nearly swollen shut and his lip busted in three different places. My eyes widened as he passed me, yet I couldn’t even look away.
This was the best damn thing I had seen in a while.
Just as he disappeared around the corner, a young and handsome man with piercing blue eyes walked over and tried to shove his keys into a classroom diagonal from us. I had never seen the man before, but he was damn attractive.
“Who’s that?” Allie asked, walking out from Mr. Barnes’s class.
“A new teacher, I guess,” I said, squinting at the door. “Computer science, it looks like.”
“Doesn’t Mrs. Goldman teach computer science?” Allie asked.
Deciding not to gawk, I looped my arm around hers and began walking down Redwood’s halls. “Mrs. Goldman got caught hacking into some of her students’ parents’ computers and accounts,” I said, shaking my head. “She had been taking money from them. I think she stole almost a half-billion dollars.”
Allie’s eyes widened. “What?! When did this happen?”
