MINE TO BULLY
It didn't.
"So." Mavo dropped into the chair across from me, entirely too interested all of a sudden. "New school. New hair. New attitude, apparently, since Mom told me you've been coming home late."
"I haven't been coming home late."
"You came home at midnight on Tuesday."
"I was at the library."
"The library closes at nine, Ezra."
"There's a twenty-four-hour one downtown."
"Since when do you use a twenty-four-hour library?"
"Since I have a lot of reading to catch up on."