MaxwellAurora had been gone ten minutes.She'd told us she was going to her locker to get a notebook, and there was nothing unusual about that. The lockers weren't far from our classroom, and she had no reason to be gone this long. Still, I kept glancing at the door every few seconds, half expecting her to walk back in complaining about how heavy her bag was.Alec noticed me looking."She's fine," he said, though he'd checked the door himself twice in the last minute."I know."Neither of us believed it enough to stop watching.Then the door opened, and a girl from the next class slipped in and made her way toward us."Hey," she said. "I saw Aurora a few minutes ago. So that you know."I sat up. "Where?""Near her locker. She was talking to Noah."The name landed like a stone dropped into still water."Noah," Alec repeated flatly.The girl nodded, oblivious to what she'd just set off, and wandered back to her seat.I felt the irritation rise before I could stop it. Of course. Noah. A
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