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says. “I mean, if you’re into the Bible. Or conspiracy theories.”
     
    “Great, well, at least we have that to look forward to,” Allie says, rolling her eyes. “Just make sure it doesn’t happen before the masquerade, will you?”
     
    “Masquerade?” Logan asks. “The one Madison was just talking about?”
     
    “Yep,” Allie says, bouncing around in her chair. “She’s head of the committee. Every year EHS does this totally over-the-top Halloween Masquerade. People get really into it.”
     
    “So are we going?” Logan asks, turning to me.
     
    Familiar heat creeps up my neck. “Um, are you asking me?”
     
    He grins. “Miss Harper Bennett, will you please consider accompanying me to said Halloween Masquerade?”
     
    Adam, Allie, Bick, and Logan all stare at me. “Um, sure,” I say.
     
    Logan turns to Allie. “Count us in.”
     
    “Awesome! Now we can go costume shopping together!” she says, setting her sandwich back down on her tray. “We only have a few weeks, so we should totally start planning.”
     
    “Sounds good.” I turn to Bick. “Are you going?”
     
    He glances up from his plate and shrugs. “Nah. I think I’ll pass.”
     
    “How can you
not
go?” Allie asks. “You have to.”
     
    “It’s cool,” he says, avoiding her eyes. “The girl I wanted to ask is already going with someone else.”
     
    “Oh,” Allie says. “Sorry.”
     
    Bick stands up with his empty tray. “Like I said. It’s cool. I gotta head out.” He takes a few steps toward the doors, and we all watch him go as he walks away.
     
    “Do you think he’s still not over Madison?” Allie asks.
     
    Logan twists around and stares at Allie, wide-eyed. “Madison?”
     
    I nod. “Yeah, they dated last spring. That’s why we universally hate her. We can’t
not.
She kind of messed with his head.”
     
    “She seemed like she was actually into him,” Adam says. “At least at first.”
     
    “
Maybe
she was,” Allie says. “But in the end she still screwed him over, so it doesn’t really matter.”
     
    I nod. “She dumped him at Tolo. It’s this casual dance, but you have to wear matching outfits. She made him wear these designer jeans and a button-down, stuff
she
likes, but anyone with two brain cells could tell it wasn’t Bick’s style.” I frown and look back at the doors, where Bick disappeared. “So you can imagine how awkward it must have been for Bick when he and Madison are dressed like twins, and then everyone sees her grinding all over Trevor Reynolds.”
     
    “Ouch.” Logan glances over his shoulder, at where Madison sits with her group of plastic friends. “I can’t picture them together.”
     
    I nod. “Yeah, we’ve all been wondering if it was some kind of game to her. You know, like a bet. Date the redneck for a couple months, dress him up, and dump him. If her plan was to devastate him, it worked.”
     
    “Anyway,” Allie says, brightening again. “Back to the costumes for the masquerade. They’ve gotta be killer.”
     

CHAPTER FOUR
     
    F riday finally arrives, and with it, our group trip to the haunted maze. I’m considering calling Allie to say that I’ve come down with a sudden case of food poisoning when Logan swings into my driveway, the perennial mud puddles splashing under his Jeep’s big tires. I pull my jacket on and slip into a worn pair of cowboy boots. Allie loves pointing out that I own cowboy boots, yet I refuse to ride horses. But whatever, they’re cuter than rubber boots. With my skinny jeans, even Allie would approve. She did pick them out, after all.
    I cross the back patio, not waiting for Logan to do his usual jump-out-and-open-my-door thing. Instead, I just climb in and lean over the gap between our seats, brushing my lips against his, embracing my newfound ability to kiss him without feeling totally freaked out and nervous.
     
    “Lovely weather we’re having,” Logan says, peering out the window at the overcast