In Deep
“Nothing fazes me, not even that I don’t have my flash cards finished for Spanish. I just make my excuses to Señora Gupta about the meet this Saturday and how important it is, and say that I’ll have everything by Monday. She smiles her tired smile and says okay, as long as I do ten extra.
Not even Kate and her steady silence across the room in Enviro can bother me. Not her tall, solid, uninterested back in Conflicts, either. Today I don’t have to sleep through lunch, and I don’t need any caffeine, either. So bring it, everyone. Just bring it the fuck on.
• • • Practice, though, is a little weirder. Grier’s still not there, and enough of the team seems worried about her that they break their vows of silence to ask me if I’ve heard anything. Like she and the whole rest of them weren’t totally cold-shouldering me just a couple of days ago.
“She’s fine,” I tell them, cool. “She just needs a break. Hard as Van’s been driving us toward Saturday, we could all use it, right?
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