Raven's POV I spent Tuesday avoiding everyone. I ate lunch in the library and kept my head down in all my classes. The humiliation from yesterday was still fresh, and I didn't want to deal with people staring at me. But Alaric found me anyway. I was sitting under a tree after school working on some jewelry when his shadow fell over me. "Hey," he said. "Mind if I sit?" I looked up at him, squinting against the sun. "Actually, I do mind." "Too bad," he said and sat down anyway. I sighed and went back to my beading. Maybe if I ignored him, he would leave. "That's pretty," he said, pointing at the bracelet I was making. "My sister's birthday is coming up, she might like this." "I can make you something," I said. "What's her favorite color?" "Purple," he said. "And she likes stars." "I can do that," I said. "It'll be twenty dollars." "Deal," he said. We sat in silence for a minute. I kept working on it, and he just watched. "What Luella did yesterday was messed up," he final
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