And honestly, chocolate is always welcome. Always. I just hope it’s not the kind with fruit or mint. My philosophy is that chocolate is a hundred percent perfect on its own and nothing else needs to be added to it ever, let alone fruit or, horror of all horrors, mint. Why would I want my chocolate to taste like toothpaste? No, absolutely not. Never. Me: Yeah, see you later Beckett meets us at the front office this time instead of Zoe and I having to wait around for him. The both of us had spent more time ‘cleaning’ my classroom as a distraction from seeing Beckett again for the first time since Saturday night. Zoe’s in top shape if a little disheveled after spilling glue all over her pretty skirt during a class project dealing with papier mache (which I will never do again, and I vow

