Steady. And it weirded me out. What was his deal? I didn’t look at him again.
Or at my mother. I just went back to eating and pretended to listen to my dad.
And the first chance I got, I excused myself and holed up in my room.
I was planning to call my friend Garrett like I usually do when I’m bent about something.
I even punched in his number, but I don’t know. I just hung up.
And later when my mom came in, I faked like I was sleeping. I haven’t done that in years.
The whole night was weird like that. I just wanted to be left alone.
Juli wasn’t at the bus stop the next morning. Or Friday morning.
She was at school, but you’d never know it if you didn’t actually look.
She didn’t whip her hand through the air trying to get the teacher to call on her or charge through the halls getting to class.
She didn’t make unsolicited comments for the teacher’s edification or challenge the kids who took cuts in the milk line.
She just sat. Quiet. I told myself I should be glad about itit was like she wasn’t even there, and isn’t that what I’d always wanted?
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