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Olivia wasn’t sure, but she nodded anyway. She needed to get away from Nurse Carmichael before she could never look the woman in the eye again.
    I wonder if I have time to pick up a sexy French maid’s outfit.
    Olivia grimaced. Too late.

CHAPTER EIGHT
The Jungle
    Tess and Mackenzie had two minutes before the lunch bell. Mackenzie checked her phone and saw a text from Cooper:
    Still on for my place?
    No way. She could not go to Cooper’s right then. She had to meet with Pi and Tess. And what if Cooper could hear her thoughts too? No, if he could, he wouldn’t have sent that text. His text would have said something along the lines of Holy shit, something weird is happening to me.
    True, he was in their homeroom. He’d gotten the same flu shot. But so far it was only happening to Pi, Tess, Olivia, and her. Maybe it was a girl thing?
    Either way, they’d have to postpone their alone time until this whole mind reading thing was cleared up.
    Mackenzie texted back:
    Can’t today. Sorry.
    “Let’s do this,” Tess said, eyes twinkling.
    They stepped into the cafeteria. A cacophony of voices rushed at Mackenzie.
    —five french fries today. Five. No more. My thighs are too—
    —There’s an empty seat at Jake’s table! Should I take it? But Amanda said—
    —Did I just get my period?—
    As each thought hit Mackenzie’s mind, so did a stabbing pain in her forehead.
    She could hear people’s thoughts. Could they hear hers?
    Hello! she screamed in her head. Can anyone hear me?
    “Yeah, me,” Tess said, rubbing her forehead. “Don’t shout.”
    “I meant besides you,” Mackenzie said.
    “Pi and Olivia,” said Tess. “Duh.”
    Cooper waved to her from their regular table at the opposite end of the room. He was sitting across from Joel, one of his good friends. Joel was also one of Mackenzie’s least favorite people. His face wore a permanent snarl.
    Where’s Teddy? Mackenzie heard Tess wondering. I need to find Teddy! This is my chance to find out how he really feels about me!
    Mackenzie looked at Cooper. What if he could read her mind? He’d know she cheated on him with Bennett. He’d hate her forever. There’d be nothing she could do.
    I won’t say anything, Tess thought back. I swear.
    I know you won’t. But what about Pi? What about Olivia? What about anyone else this is happening to?
    They both looked over at Cooper. He was dipping french fries in ketchup. He didn’t seem to be stressing about anything. He looked totally normal.
    “He doesn’t look like he has it,” Tess said.
    “Do I look like I have it?” Mackenzie asked. “How do you look when you have it?”
    “You look freaked out,” Tess told her.
    We all did have a bit of a freaked-out look to us when we first got it. Which was understandable, since it was freaky.
    Cooper, on the other hand, did not look freaked out at all. He looked completely at ease as he smiled at beady-eyed Joel.
    “I don’t think he has it,” Tess said. “But look at BJ.”
    BJ was sitting one table behind Cooper and did in fact look freaked out. Instead of eating the pizza in front of him, he’d placed his palms flat on the table and he was frantically looking back and forth at the people around him.
    Tess giggled. “Should I put him out of his misery? Or let him wallow in it for a while? He’s such a perv. I do not want to know what he’s thinking at all.”
    “How are you going to put him out of his misery? By telling him that he probably has telepathy?”
    “By telling him that he’s not the only one.”
    “I guess,” Mackenzie said. “And tell him we’re meeting in the chess club room in ten minutes. But, Tess—can you check on Cooper? Make sure he’s okay?” She wished she could hear what he was thinking from this end of the cafeteria. But it didn’t seem to work like that. You had to be kind of close to people to hear them. Although if she could hear what he was thinking from here, then he’d be able to hear what she was thinking from