Things seemed to be okay with Carl, but Ryan had started acting weird again. She tried finding him for two days, to thank him for fishing her out of the sea. But then eventually she concluded that he was avoiding her. She believed he might be having his reasons for that. For all she knew, a drunk Violet might have done something to offend him, but a sober Violet wanted to make up for it.
On the other hand, Violet wanted to avoid Ted, but that was impossible when he was one of her subject teachers. He kept her after class on Monday to ask her how the date had gone. She could not lie; as the answer was all over the internet.
"It could have gone better, but you already knew that, didn't you?" Violet said. For she was sick of holding herself back. It was not that he ever had any intention of
