20. Testosterone-Driven Creatures

“Scoot, the rest of us want to sit too.”

I look at Nicki but keep my mouth shut. Nothing is going to ruin my mood today, as I’m having the time of my week.

The past week has been extremely boring, with no excitement to speak of in my life. It has gone back to its old routine of school and three friends and nosy siblings, two of them who are not talking to each other. I think very soon I might be saying four friends, because in the course of the past week Simon has been dragging Isaac with him everywhere. Not complaining or anything, he’s pretty cool and there’s a lot of space for improvement in my friendship department. Cole has been saying hi every time we cross paths, but I’m not going to put him on my possible friend list…yet. I still haven’t been able to gather up enough courage to ask him why Jude hasn’t been to school for seven days now, so I think I’m still a l