“She did it the proper and approved way this time—up the circular staircase, followed by Salome and Ariel. And as soon as the three of them were settled in the main room of the Treehouse, she got out the green journal, the one she’d been using to record information about Morrison Middle School and the FFW. Her first sentence was exactly what she’d been planning before Alex made his surprise visit. Nothing that happened that afternoon at the McCall House had changed her mind in the slightest abou...t that. Alex Lockwood, she wrote, is the most quick-witted person I’ve ever met. But when that was written, she just sat there for a long time drumming on the tabletop and thinking about what had happened that afternoon—the things that had been said, and maybe the things that should have been said and weren’t. Ariel jumped up on the table and batted at her drumming pencil, but she shoved her away and went on thinking. I didn’t know what to say, she finally wrote, when he said that about humiliation.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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