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said Leo.
    â€œSo what do you like least about them?” It seemed only fair to ask.
    Leo laughed. “What I like least is that when they come to visit, they don’t like me spending my time with anyone but them.” Then he told me he had to go but promised he’d call tomorrow night, as soon as his grandparents leave.
    Tuesday, December 9, 10:02 p.m.
In my room
    Leo called. But it’s a shame he called when he did. I must have seemed distracted, because he asked if I had something on my mind, which I did, and we spent the whole call (which only lasted six minutes) talking about what happened in dance today.
    The worst part is that it was so stupid, and talking about it made me seem stupid. I had told Leo about the recent drama with my friends on Saturday when we went Christmas shopping. So tonight I told him how Emily came up to me during our break at dance and said Brynn told her it was my fault that Billy broke up with her.
    â€œWhat did you say?” Leo asked.
    â€œI asked her what exactly Brynn had told her. She said Brynn said she should ask me why I would do something like that.” I described how she put her hand on her hip and looked at me like I owed her some kind of explanation. “It had nothing to do with Emily,” I said.
    â€œHmm,” said Leo. “That sounds pretty complicated.”
    â€œRight?” I was glad he got it. “I mean, it was wrong for Brynn to drag her into it. Don’t you think?”
    â€œYeah,” said Leo. I waited for him to make one of his insightful comments about how silly it was that Brynn was bringing other people into something they had nothing to do with, but he didn’t. “April, I’m not very good with girl stuff,” he said. Then he told me he had to go. After we hung up, I looked down at my phone.
    If it had a do-over button, I would have pushed it.
    Wednesday, December 10, 6:17 p.m.
Not-so-secret Santa
    My problems with Brynn are getting worse by the day. She’s going person-to-person on the dance team and dragging them into her warped thinking that I caused the breakup with Billy.
    I know this because today we were drawing Secret Santa names, and when Vanessa Mendez picked, she looked at me, which I was pretty sure meant she drew my name. I also saw Brynn, who was standing next to Vanessa, look over Vanessa’s shoulder and frown, which made me doubly sure Vanessa had picked me.
    Then after dance, Vanessa came up to me and said Brynn told her I caused the breakup with Billy. It was the same thing that happened with Emily.
    â€œI didn’t cause any breakup,” I said. “How could I do that?”
    What I’d meant was that one person can’t make another person break up with someone else, but that wasn’t how Vanessa took it.
    â€œExactly,” said Vanessa. “When Brynn told me, I said the same thing. How could April do that?” She paused and looked at me like she was waiting for her words to sink in and then continued. “I get that Sophie is kind of like family to you, but we’re a team, and we’re supposed to be a family. Maybe you should apologize to Brynn,” she said.
    â€œSure,” I said to Vanessa.
    â€œGreat,” said Vanessa, like she’d done her job.
    As I walked home, I was thinking two things.
    One: there’s no way I’m apologizing to Brynn. Two: Vanessa doesn’t know sarcasm when she hears it.
    Friday, December 12, 5:58 p.m.
It’s a wrap
In more ways than one
    Today after school, SGA had a wrap party for the toys they collected from the toy drive, and Sophie asked me if I’d stop by and help wrap. Everyone on SGA brought in Christmas cookies, and a bunch of kids were coming to help wrap. We didn’t have dance practice, so I was happy to pitch in. Apparently, so were Emily and Vanessa.
    I was kind of surprised they came. They’ve both made it pretty clear they’re allies with Brynn on the breakup