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locker slammed on it,’ he said.
    Eve winced. ‘I must’ve hit it with my elbow. Sorry.’
    ‘How’d you even do that?’ Dave asked, shaking his hand. ‘You weren’t anywhere near me.’
    ‘What can I say? I’m truly gifted at the klutz thing,’ she answered, then turned back to Luke. ‘I don’t want to write that Gandhi had a jerky side, OK? Unlike you, I don’t feel the need to make a statement every second.’
    ‘Excuse me?’ he said. ‘It’s wrong to have something to say? I guess we could do the paper on Gandhi’s feelings about make-up and fashion, but other than that Vogue cover in that really cute loincloth after he’d had all that diet success, we don’t have a lot of material.’
    Eve stared at him, astonished. And furious. That proved it. That’s what he really thought of her – that allshe cared about was diet tips and cute clothes. He went around flirting with every girl he saw … and he was being judgemental? How did that work? ‘You’re not trying to say anything about Gandhi,’ Eve said, stung. ‘You’re just trying to make a point. Well, we get it. You’re not from around here. You’re not a spoiled rich kid. You care about important things like working conditions for the poor and how buying a designer bag – I don’t know – rips food out of the mouths of the starving. You’re far superior to everyone you meet. You’re a special, special snowflake.’
    Luke laughed. Which wasn’t the reaction Eve was expecting. Or wanting. She’d just insulted him, the way he’d insulted her. Didn’t he get that? Or maybe he was incapable of being offended by the opinion of someone who he thought was a complete fluff-head?
    Eve turned and stalked away from him, fuming. She’d known him for a week and a half now, and he got more annoying every day. And she couldn’t get rid of him for another fifty minutes. Not only was he in her biology class, he was at the same lab table.
    Eve ignored him as she walked into the room and took her seat on her lab stool. Finally she risked a glance at Luke to see how he was taking it. He didn’t seem to notice. He was too busy flirting with BelindaDelaware. Somehow she’d become his girlfriend, or at least his number one groupie. The boy was shameless.
    Eve picked up her list of supplies for that day’s experiment. The final bell hadn’t rung yet, but she decided to start getting out the equipment – it would keep her from having to deal with annoying Luke.
    ‘One hundred-millilitre beaker, one hundred-millilitre graduated cylinder, one fifty-millilitre graduated cylinder, one twenty-five-millilitre graduated cylinder,’ she muttered as she knelt down by the cabinet under the lab table.
    ‘Great. It’s good to see someone using this time to prep,’ Ms Whittier said as she breezed into the room. ‘Today’s experiment is a long one. You’re going to need every minute.’
    Eve found the graduated cylinders and set them on the table, then grabbed the beaker. ‘Hey, Belinda, would you say I’m a special snowflake?’ she heard Luke ask. He was talking loudly, and Eve knew she was meant to hear him. Did he live to torment her? Her fingers twitched, and the beaker fell to the floor, leaving sparkling shards of glass around her feet. The tinkling sound seemed to echo through the room.
    ‘Man down!’ Luke called. Belinda giggled. She thought Luke was so, so funny. Didn’t Luke realizeshe was the stupidest girl in school? Maybe he didn’t care as long as she thought he was so, so funny.
    Eve straightened up, and as she did so, a beaker fell off the shelf, adding more glass to the pile.
    ‘Wow. Nice shooting, Tex,’ Luke joked. And Belinda giggled again. Of course.
    Ms Whittier walked over with a broom and dustpan. She handed them to Eve with raised eyebrows, but didn’t comment. Eve kept her back to Luke and Belinda while she swept. Her earlobes were burning. That always happened when she got embarrassed.
    ‘They should give you a medical