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"I should get to class," he said. "I don't want you to have to re-teach me this whole unit."
I watched him as he stood up and started to walk away and I said, "Crossy."
He looked at me over his shoulder, eyebrows raised. I just whispered, "Thank you."
CHAPTER 19
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Saylor didn’t cometo class again the next morning and I was planning to go by her room to check on her in the evening, until Poppy told me she’d seen Saylor at the stable. I went there straight after hockey practice and found Saylor almost immediately, unsurprisingly in Bourbon’s stall.
“Fancy seeing you here,” I said, resting my arms on top of the stall door and leaning in. Saylor jerked her head up and glanced at me, but then went back to grooming the horse like I wasn’t even there. Bourbon turned her head toward me, nudging at my hand like she expected something. I put down the coffee cup I’d gotten I’m my way over and held up my hands, so Bourbon could see they were empty. “Sorry, girl. No treats.”
I made a mental note that if I was going to be hanging around the stable this much that I needed to start getting horse treats. What could horses eat anyway? Sugar cubes? I had no idea where I could get sugar cubes without time travelling back a hundred years, but I swore that was what people gave horses in movies. I opened my mouth to ask Saylor about it, but thought better of it. She would probably just laugh at me and say that I couldn’t trust everything I saw on TV.
Saylor still wasn’t acknowledging my existence, so I pulled my phone out of my pocket. I knew how annoying it was when someone bothered me while I was in the middle of doing something for hockey, so I wasn’t going to try to distract her while she was doing this. I could wait.
Group Name:The Penalty Box
Members:Bear, Tino, Crossy, Mako
Crossy
Do any of you know what horses like to eat
Tino
Hay?
Crossy
Like as a treat
Tino
Sugar cubes
Crossy
That’s what I thought too but is that just a thing in movies??
Tino
I don’t know man
Not sure I’ve ever seen a horse in real life
Crossy
Huh??
Bear
That can’t possibly be true
Tino
Where would I see one??
