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Show Inside Out, 118 I cleared my throat. "I'm- Just then the bell rang: ten minutes until school started. "What?" she yelled over the ringing of the bell. Then it was quiet again but now I noticed the sound of kids in the hall. "I just wanted to say that I'm sorry. About what I said about Simon. I stuck my nose in where I shouldn't. It was stupid of me." She looked away. "It's OK," she said. "It's just that Simon is a jerk who won't leave me alone." "Oh," I said. She turned and pulled the door open. "See you in class," she said. "See you!" I called. The door banged shut behind her. Yes! I punched the air. I was still on a high when I came into English that afternoon. I smiled and said hi to Terra as I squeezed past her. She didn't smile, but she nodded a little. It was almost as if she didn't even know me. Still, it was progress from the disgusted smirks I usually got from her. I decided not to push it by making conversation with her. Denver came into class just as I was sitting down. He grinned that gorgeous grin right at me as he came down the aisle. "Hi, Denver," said Sadie Beesinger, gorgeous cheerleader and guy-bait. She turned around as he walked past her desk, maybe to see who he was smiling at. She saw me and looked confused. She was probably the kind of girl who managed to get into all the honors classes but nobody knew how. Maybe her mom came in and whined at all the |