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answer.
    Alfie’s grip loosens a bit.
    “ Good,” Jace says. “That guys a bit
arrogant anyway. You’re too good for him.”
    “ I doubt Alfie will let me text any
guy,” I say. “Does Noah go to our school?”
    “ Yeah,” he answers. “And I don’t think
Alfie will try to stop you from texting any guy. Just the guys he
doesn’t approve of.”
    “ Can we not talk about me like I’m not
sitting right here?” Alfie asks.
    Now you know how I feel.
    I want to say the words out loud, but I’m
too scared to make him more mad. Maybe I shouldn’t be. How could it
get any worse that it already is? Maybe if I start dishing it back,
he will see how much it hurts.
    No. I can’t be that cruel to him.
    I just wish he felt the same.
    The rest of the way to school, Jace tries to
start a few conversations, but it always falls flat. Eventually, he
stops trying and we ride the rest of the way to school in an
uncomfortable silence. As soon as we get to school, Alfie gets out
of the car and runs away before Jace and I can even get out.
    Jace gets out, and then helps me climb out
of the small backseat.
    “ Don’t worry about him. He’ll come
around,” Jace tells me.
    “ I’ve been told that, but I don’t
think it’s going to happen,” I say, grabbing my messenger bag from
the backseat and sling it over my shoulder. “But thanks
anyway.”
    “ If you want to get even, just talk to
Noah again. He can’t stand that guy,” he says, as we walk towards
the school together. “When he saw the two of you flirting, he flew
off the handle.”
    “ We weren’t flirting.”
    “ Well, he was flirting with you,” Jace
says, then turns to me. “I’m going to go find your
brother.”
    “ Okay. I’m leaving first,” I say, and
walk into the double doors of the school.
    “ Hey, Gracie,” Jace yells from behind
me.
    I turn toward him.
    “ In America, you don’t have to tell
somebody you’re leaving first,” he says.
    “ Right. Sorry,” I say, then turn back
around.
    At least I didn’t bow that time.
    I pull the schedule out of my backpack and
look at the room number of my first class. It’s on the second
floor, so I head up the first staircase that I see and my class it
just a couple doors away from the stairs. The school is easy to
navigate, so at least I won’t get lost.
    In Korea, we stayed the whole day in the
same room. I’m going to miss that for sure. All of my classes are
each in different rooms. But at least my first class of the day is
math. I like math. It’s a good way to start the day.
    I walk inside the room. Nobody is in there
yet, so I take a seat in the front. I’m short by American
standards, and I don’t want to get stuck behind somebody and not be
able to see.
    A few minutes later, somebody sits in the
desk beside me.
    “ Hey,” the guys says to me.
    I look over and see a Chinese boy sit beside
me. He has an American accent, though, so he’s probably been raised
here.
    “ Hey,” I say, bowing towards
him.
    “ Are you a scholarship student?” he
asks.
    “ Scholarship?” I ask.
“ Aniyo . No.”
    “ It’s okay to be a scholarship kid,”
he says. “I’m here on a scholarship. The other kids don’t really
bug us if we stick together.”
    “ I don’t really understand,” I say.
“I’m not…”
    “ Gracie,” a voice says.
    I turn around in my seat to see Noah walk in
to the class. His nose is looking completely normal, thank
goodness.
    “ Noah, hey,” I say.
    “ You didn’t call me,” he says. “I’m
hurt.”
    “ Sorry,” I say. “I didn’t want to make
Alfie mad.”
    Noah walks over to the desk where the
Chinese boy is sitting.
    “ Move it Yang,” Noah says. “I want to
sit by her.”
    “ So sit on the other side,” he says,
but he does get up and move to a desk on the other side of the
room.
    Noah sits beside me.
    “ That was rude,” I tell
Noah.
    He shrugs. “You don’t want to sit by
him.”
    I roll my eyes and get up out of the seat. I
grab my bag and