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    “My math,” I lied. “Hey, Tammera’s looking mighty hot today. You might want to go say hi to her.”
    “She is,” Johnny agreed, taking in the scenery, not even noticing Liz and Kate as they zipped around the corner. Liz missed me too, because she was leaned into Kate, talking.
    “I might... , ” he stopped ogling Tammera . “ Hey, there’s Kate DuPrey . I wouldn’t want to be her today.”
    I took in a breath. “Why? What’s going on?”
    “Didn’t Seth call you?”
    “No.” He hadn’t called and to tell the truth I had spent so much time rehearsing how I was going to ask Liz out, I had totally forgotten he was supposed to.
    “Then watch,” Johnny smiled, “and learn. Kate’s gonna have a bad day.”
    He waved at Tammera again, and this time she waved back. “I, on the other hand, am going to have a good day!” Johnny smiled and took off in Tammera’s direction.
    I waited until Tammera and Johnny disappeared around a corner before approaching Liz.
    “Hey , ” I said grinning, even though my stomach was rolling and my mind racing. I had no idea what Seth was up to.
    “Hey, back.” Liz graced me with smiling green eyes. “ Kate,” she said, “Do you know Andy?”
    Kate cast her eyes down. Unlike Liz’s , they were quiet and grey. She looked back uncertainly at Liz and softly said, “We’ve been in lots of classes together.”
    I stood there uncomfortably shaking my head. “Yep. Lots of years. Lots of classes.”
    Dang, I hated it when I said stupid stuff in front of girls, and that’s all that was coming out of my mouth right then. I smiled at Liz, realizing at that moment I had absolutely nothing to say to her. The harder I tried to think of something to say, the less my mouth worked. So much for all my rehearsing.
    “We watched the Rainforest special together yesterday,” she told Kate. Then she smiled at me. “It was fun.”
    I nodded since my mouth wasn’t working yet.
    “Well….bye,” Kate said, focusing on the floor before walking away. She hadn’t looked at me one time; I guess she felt more awkward than I did.
    “Andy, I’ll talk to you in science.” Liz grabbed her book and slammed her locker. “I better go. Something weird happened on the bus, and I need to talk to Kate about it.”
    I grabbed her arm. “What? What happened?”
    “Probably nothing. You know Kate; she’s so shy.” Liz sighed. “She thinks people were talking about her. She said a couple of people were pointing and laughing.” Liz shook her head. “I told her people pointed and laughed all the time, but Kate swears they were pointing directly at her.”
    “Who did it?” I asked.
    “Some random kids on the bus. I’m not even sure who they were. It’s probably all her imagination. Like I said, Kate’s really shy.”
    “Yeah,” I agreed.
    But watching Liz hurry away, I didn’t think she was right at all. This thing between Seth and Kate wasn’t going away. It was just getting started.
    I had a few more minutes before the bell and decided maybe I needed to find time to talk to Seth after all.

 
Haters
    I have no patience with Chrissy Allen. She may be beautiful, but that girl is dangerous. Most of the time I don’t understand girls and how they think or act, but Chrissy is someone I completely get. She’s one of those people who will do or say whatever they need to in order to get what they want. Chrissy wanted two things: popularity and Charlie. She was going to get these things by bringing down Kate DuPrey .
    I figured out pretty easily it was Chrissy who had spread the news through the girl-grapevine of our school by saying Kate was the person who told on Seth. And that is how Kate became the newest victim of hallway gossip at Jameson High School.
    Kate was right. People were talking and whispering and pointing at her. Kate was the topic of conversation in the lunchroom, the person to be whispered about in the library, and the person to be terrorized in the hallway. By last