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“I enjoyed your journals,” Mrs. Arnold told the class on Friday morning. “Some very inventive answers there. Being invisible was your top choice—”
Cheers went out from people who had picked that.
“—with the ability to fly, second—”
More cheers.
“—and incredible strength, third.”
“That’s me,” one of the guys shouted. He flexed to prove he was already there.
“Some of your answers, though,” Mrs. Arnold said, “were unusual. I thought you’d like to hear from a few of your classmates. Samantha, would you come up and share yours?”
As Halli watched Samantha Grabel walk up to the front of the class, looking both shy and pleased, Halli felt a strange kind of dread. She had no reason to think Mrs. Arnold might call her up there, but the possibility made her uncomfortable. She thought what
