Fake it with me
He was leaning against the lockers with his arms crossed, saying something to the group assembled around him, and the group was doing what groups around Mason Reed always did, laughing on cue, nodding, angling themselves slightly toward him like plants toward a window.
Two girls near the front of the group were doing the specific thing that Ava found most tedious, the thing where they laughed a half second after everyone else because they were busy watching his face to make sure they were reacting correctly. Mason said something else and touched one of them lightly on the arm, the briefest possible contact, and she visibly lost the thread of whatever she had been about to say.
Ava turned awa