# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Nineteen — Marcus Webb's UT Letter
She found out before he told her.
The university sent acceptance notifications on a Wednesday at noon and by 12:22 Mia's phone had three texts from students — not about themselves, about Marcus. Rosa: *did you hear?* Jonah: *Marcus got in.* Amara, who had known for two months that she was going and had been quietly waiting for Marcus to get there too: *he's in the hallway and he's trying to be cool about it and he's not.*
She had a prep period at twelve-thirty. She went to the hallway.
She found him at his locker, staring at his phone with the specific expression of a person who has received information that does not yet feel real. His jacket was half on. He had apparently started putting it away and stoppe
