91 Chapter 91

"So?" Lucy asked as soon as I walked into biology class. I'd avoided her in the hallway, but there was going to be no getting around her now. We were partners after all.

Playing dumb, I asked, "So what?"

"So why didn't you call me yesterday? Where were you this morning?" She lowered her voice. "What happened with the video? Emma said you wanted to call me and tell me yourself, but you didn't."

I took a deep breath and sat down in my seat. "It's nothing," I said, trying to figure out how to make my voice sound nonchalant. I was lying to her, and I hated it, but I didn't know what else to do. I'd promised Elliott I wouldn't tell them anything else.

"What's nothing?" Emma asked, flinging her books down in such a way that papers spread everywhere out of her notebooks and folders. Lucy and I grabbed them before they spilled all over the floor and helped her stack them back up. She always carried too much stuff.

"Nothing is nothing," I replied as she sat down between us.