Chapter 24
Monday morning I found Christian waiting for me at my locker.
“How was your Thanksgiving?” he asked.
I thought of Sophie’s last words to me, how they’d filled me with dread the rest of the weekend. But maybe that had been her goal all along. Scare me enough that I go running to Lucent Academy. “Full of giving thanks. Yours?”
“Fine.”
I removed the books from my bag while trying not to look at him. His presence still pained my heart.
Christian seemed to be struggling to say something and kept shifting his weight back and forth.
Just before I had to go, he blurted, “Sorry we haven’t really talked lately. I’ve been pretty busy with football.”
“No problem.” I closed my locker. “I’ve been busy, too.”
“Are you going to the pep rally on Friday?”
“Out at Deer Lake?” I walked t
