Bang

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Author: Norah McClintock
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sketch of the suspect. I stare at it and really relax for the first time since it happened. If you ask me, the guy in the sketch doesn’t look anything like me. Grinning, I glance at JD.
    â€œYou were right,” I say. “Whoever they have as a witness didn’t see two guys, just one. For sure he didn’t see me—or you. Either that or they have a police artist who flunked out of art school.”
    JD stares at me. He has a funny expression on his face.
    â€œAre you okay?” I say.
    He nods. “Can I use your bathroom?”
    While he’s in there, I pour myself a big bowl of cereal and eat the whole thing. I make myself a peanut butter and honeysandwich and eat that, washing it down with a glass of milk. I feel great. The face on that drawing doesn’t look like me at all. I feel like dancing. If Leah was here, I’d grab her and swing her around. Who knows, maybe I’d even kiss her.
    JD comes into the kitchen and says, “We better get a move on.”
    â€œNo problem,” I say.
    I’m practically walking on air all the way to school. Sure, I’m sorry about the guy who got killed. But I wasn’t the one carrying the gun. I didn’t do anything. Only now I don’t have to try to explain that to the police. I don’t have to explain anything to anybody. I don’t have to rat out JD, which I have the feeling he wouldn’t take very well, if you know what I mean. All I have to do is try to forget about the whole thing.
    The morning goes like normal—attendance, announcements, math, computers, French. In other words, boring, boring, boring, computer games, boring. Except that Leahis in my French class. On her way to her desk, she hands me an envelope.
    â€œWhat is it?” I say.
    â€œOpen it,” she says.
    I do and find a picture of JD and me with our bikes. It’s the picture Leah took Sunday morning. It’s the last thing I want to be reminded of. But she’s standing there waiting for my reaction, so I tell her, It’s great, thanks, Leah.
    She frowns. “What’s the matter? Don’t you like it?”
    â€œSure, I do,” I say. Then I tell her the truth. “I was hoping it would be the picture JD took. The one of you and me.”
    Her cheeks turn pink. “Really?”
    â€œYeah, really.”
    She looks at me in a way she’s never done before, and all of a sudden I wish we weren’t in French class. I wish we were somewhere alone together.
    After she takes her place, I fold the picture of JD and me and tuck it into my wallet.
    Just before French class ends, there’san announcement to the whole school over the PA system—special assembly after lunch. Students whose last names start with the letters A to L report to the auditorium at one o’clock. Students whose last names start with M to Z report at one thirty. The vice-principal who makes the announcement doesn’t say what the special assembly is all about.
    JD and I are both M-Z, so we report to the auditorium from English class (the only class we’re in together) at one thirty. Kids from the one o’clock assembly are making their way back to class. JD snags one of them, a kid he knows, and asks him what the assembly is about.
    â€œSome guy who got shot,” the kid says. “The cops think maybe it was a kid from this school that did it.”
    There it is again—that freezing hot feeling. Plus I feel like I want to throw up.
    JD gives me a little push to get me moving down the hall toward the auditorium. We take a seat in the back. The vice-principal is on the stage telling everyone, Settledown, come on, people, we don’t have all day. When it’s finally quiet, he introduces a man in a sharp-looking suit. I recognize him. He’s the homicide cop that was on the breakfast television show. He tells us his name—Detective Brian Tanner. He says he is working on the murder of Richard Braithwaite, who
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