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... sto

nst the iron bookshelf lining the school corridor. My back hit it first, and the

open. I couldn't afford to zone out right now. Not with Sara Owen standing three feet in

a ... she p

this pain to the core." Sara sna

ide of me tightened their grip on Sara's order, one on each arm, pinning me

ulled. Yet,

ld remember. But today's pain felt different. Like Sara had decided that

alone made my

ce that didn't need to be loud to be deadly. She had that look on her face too. The one she reserved f

just bu

ess. 'My'

e way her eyes moved over me ... slowly, like she was reading a label on something expi

ld shot thro

iddle of this corridor, with people already starting to slow their walk to see what was

Don't let he

d held her stare. "You don't k

that meant she absolutely did know what s

f my cheek hard enough to taste something metallic. Getting physical with them was pointless as they had me completely pinned - but stand

, Eliana

en I s

ck tip. She uncovered it with this calm, unbothered energy, like she had all th

turned over

o, no,

hole body against the grip on my arms, and for a half second I almost got free ... alm

Sara said, not eve

mehow worse than anything else. Because this was Sara. And Sara didn't do small things when she could do something that followed you for the rest of the year. With the

p was inches

me just snapp

and before I even made a conscious decision to do it over better still, before I even

l H

hhh

sharp clatter sound that echoed off the corridor walls. Her two girls immedia

ra

ping, heart slamming against my ribs, and the sound of the marker skittering across

her

urious, and I felt rather than heard the shift ... the secon

were

rely had time to register that I was there before I was already past them. My lungs were starting to burn big time. Also, my shoulder still ac

is like my wo

d a gla

starting to thin out ahead in less people, less cover - and

g. Because Sara hadn't just been talking back there. She hadn't been making empty threats to scare me. She'd said it loud and deliberately, with her girl

me school ended today

g I had that was still mine. The last wall standing between me and complete, total exposure. An

ng. Fall ap

to the stairwell at the end of the hall, wondering if I could make it b

some

ople i

collision ... broad, solid, unmovable - and I bounced back slightly before a se

ving, trying to figure out if I had just escaped o

myself to

s it was not what I was expecting at all. I didn't know either of them. At least, I was certain of that. You d

seen yo

he same second, too strange and too

ying anything, without looking at each other, without what felt like any deliberate coordination at all. One

the footsteps beh

me was empty. Sara and her girls were gone. Just like that. Like they'd e

stand what had just shifted in the air in the space o

y, trying to arrange my face into something that d

to create a little breathing room between us, and offered what

ed to

them landing gently but firmly on each

ng me