Two Cool for School
“said Alex. She closed her math book and stood up.
She hadn’t meant it in a mean way, more of a concerned way.
She was worried about Ava; her sister seemed even more flustered and distracted than usual lately.
“I know, I’m sorry. I had to go check out an after-school study thing, which felt an awful lot like detention to me.”
Alex had already started down the school steps, but at Ava’s words, she turned around. “You had detention?”
“No,” said Ava quickly. “I said it felt like detention.”
“Are you in trouble academically?” asked Alex, alarmed.
“No!” Ava said more emphatically. “It’s just a study group, that’s all. Come on. Let’s hustle before they have to start setting up for dinner and stuff.”
Alex’s mind snapped back to their to-do list. “The good thing is we can walk to Le Pain from here,” she said. “Although it is a zillion degrees out and I was having the world’s best hair day.”
Le Pain was midway down an otherwise unassuming stretch of stores, two blocks from the high school.
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