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Chapter 16
Jane met Emily outside in the hall.
"Well?" Emily said. Jane didn't know if Emily had heard the conversation or not. Ms. Anderson's voice was always so soft and low.
"She just wanted to ask me about one answer I put down on yesterday's homework," Jane decided to lie instead. It was better than telling the truth: she was just praising me for being a hero.
But Jane knew she had deserved only the first part of Ms. Anderson's praise, not the second. She wasn't being particularly kind to Lucy. She was as deeply involved in the contest scam as anyone. Even more deeply. She was the one who had told her about it in the first place.
Right then, halfway to art class, Jane made a solemn vow. She would tell Lucy t
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