Chapter 5 The last class of the day dragged on, made worse by a nagging feeling that everyone was invading my space. All I wanted was to get home so I could finish my Biology revision and then pretend I was going to yell at Harry for an hour or two. Which, of course, I wouldn’t do because he might say something else I didn’t want to hear. Nicole had been given a detention when the school found out she didn’t have permission to be in town, but being able to produce her completed essay saved her from a worse fate. Not that she seemed in the least bit grateful to me. Had I ever been that annoying? I crossed out the maths problem that I was stuffing up and started again. ‘I heard he was so upset he left town altogether.’ My head snapped up to see who was whispering. It was Taylor, one of

