Jack casually turns around at the corner to see who they are and they run away, high-fiving each other and laughing. Little jerks.
Jack crosses the street like nothing happened and stands next to me at the bus stop, blowing a bubble.
“Friends of yours?” I finally say. “Ha,” he says. He's trying to smile but I can see he's upset.
“Just some jerks from my school,” he says. “A kid named Julian and his two gorillas, Henry and Miles.”
“Do they bother you like that a lot?” “No, they've never done that before.”
“They'd never do that in school or they'd get kicked out. Julian lives two blocks from here, so I guess it was just bad luck running into him.”
“Oh, okay.” I nod. “It's not a big deal,” he assures me.
We both automatically look down Amesfort Avenue to see if the bus is coming.
“We're sort of in a war,” he says after a minute, as if that explains everything.
Then he pulls out this crumpled piece of loose-leaf paper from his jean pocket and gives it to me.
I unfold it, and it's a list of names in three columns. “He's turned the whole grade against me,” says Jack.
“Not the whole grade,” I point out, looking down at the list.
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