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mammals.”
    Garth’s wide eyes give away his shock. He blinks a few times, trying to appear confident. “Wow, that’s a good one. I’ll get the easy one out of the way first. Platypus.”
    I wrote the answer down in my notebook. “That’s one.”
    “Umm. Water shrew.”
    “That’s two.”
    “And …”
    I glance up at Mr. Poretsky. He’s taking out his reading glasses. “You’ve got five seconds.”
    “Uhh. Uhh. I … I don’t know.”
    “European mole. Gotcha!”
    Mr. Poretsky places his textbook on the desk, and the whole class goes quiet.
    Garth shakes his head and whispers, “Good game.”
    “Of course it was good. I won.”
    After bio is over, Garth walks me to the center section on the first floor. Cherise and I always meet there after school. I saw Garth looking at me in class today, more than usual. I think he likes how I look, but he’d never say anything to me. “Bye, Garth.”
    “Okay, Teenie. See you tomorrow.” Garth will usually say goodbye and walk away, but today he lingers for a moment once he sees Cherise, as if deciding whether or not to speak to her. Her flared right nostril and slightly parted lips tell him to move on.
    “Why do you even hang out with that big moose?” Cherise asks me, with Garth barely out of earshot.
    “Shh!! He’s nice once you get to know him.” I turn around to see if he heard what she said.
    “Hmm. Yeah … I guess I’ll just have to take your word for that one.”
    “Shut up. Why you always gotta be so damn sarcastic?”
    “Come on, Teenie, seriously, look at him. Look at his clothes. His pants are mad high. Okay, my man, where’s the flood? Let’s not even talk about his shoes. They’re rocked over like he was mountain climbing or something. I wouldn’t be caught dead talking to him.”
    I didn’t even notice his pants today. I try to step in and defend him, but she’s not quite done.
    “And his butt. Look at his butt! He got more than me.”
    Cherise drops down and does a perfect impersonation of Beyoncé doing the booty bounce.
    “Stop it, dummy,” I say before I push her. I can’t even lie. She has me dying laughing.
    “Well, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised,” she sighs.
    “Why’s that?”
    “You know what they say.
Nerds
of a feather flock together.”
    “For real? So why are you hanging out with me? Want some of that nerd to rub off on you?”
    “Not quite,” she snorts. “You’re like my protégé, but based on the company you keep, it looks like I still got a lot of work to do.”
    “Yeah, whatever. So what’re we doing now?”
    “The mall, remember? I would’ve been done already if I didn’t have to wait on your slow behind. I don’t know why you had to be such a nerd and get a one-to-nine schedule.” Cherise is shaking her head. I hurried down five flights of stairs as fast as my tight dress would allow. “Who the hell requests an extra class?”
    “I told you already. I did it for YSSAP. Honestly, do you listen to a word that I say?” I’ve told her a bazillion times that I am trying to spend a semester overseas next year. I’ve been researching it since I first heard about it. The results were supposed to be up yesterday. Now I’m hearing that they will be up tomorrow during lunch, so I’ll find out if all this hard work and sacrifice was worth it. That’d be soooo hot, if I could go to Spain. Taking a one-to-nine will feel a lot better when I get to practice my Spanish for real. Cherise cuts into my dream.
    “Oh, change of plans. I can’t stay by you tonight.”
    Talk about bursting my bubble. Now I have to talk to Greg all by myself. What am I gonna do now? “Why can’t you come?” My arms are shaking, and she’s smiling. Why is she smiling? Can’t she see that I’m about to lose it?
    “I’m going out tonight.”
    “Going out? On a school night? With who?”
    As soon as she says, “Don’t worry about it,” I know that means she’s gonna meet up with Big Daddy.
    “I need you to