All Chapters of Too Big to Fit.: Chapter 81 - Chapter 83

Sydney If I thought Monday was noisy and crowded with all the buzz going on about the game… I was wrong. Tuesday was worse. “Bringing that trophy home!” someone yelled from behind me, purple paint smeared across half his face like he’d lost a fight with a paint bucket. “Woop! Woop! Lakeview!” Someone brought a freaking horn to school and was blowing it while riding a skateboard down the hallway. That wasn’t just dangerous, that was illegal on school grounds. “Hey, catch!” Something flew across the hallway. I shrieked and ducked automatically. Thud! A basketball smacked into a locker two feet away from me, before bouncing back into someone’s hands. The guy didn’t even apologize. He just caught it and laughed, turning back to his partner. Then he threw it again in someone else’s direction. Chaos. That was the perfect description of Lakeview High’s hallway that morning. And somehow, the school was encouraging it. Purple streamers hung from the railing, p

SydneyClasses passed in an actual blur.Not because they were exciting. But because nobody cared about how the president won the election six years ago. Or how the immune system would fight when it realizes we have eyes.And by lunchtime, every lesson had basically given up.Teachers looked tired, students looked possessed. And the entire school seemed to be counting down until tip-off, like it was the only thing keeping us alive.And if you asked me what I learned today? I couldn’t tell you a single thing.All I knew was somehow, I survived sitting in front of Dean for three straight periods while he spent most of the time bragging to a girl who was obviously waiting for him to ask her out.By the time the bell rang, my ears physically hurt.Goosebumps still crawled up my skin in irritation as everyone spilled into the hallway.And then somehow by sundown, I found myself standing in Maeve’s yellow bedroom.In front of her mirror.Wearing Lakeview’s jersey, which I’d stuck in the da