I guess he knew a lost cause when he saw one because he sighed and walked away without another word. Sabrina watched him leave before she properly entered the small space.
“You stole my nook,” she said. She sat down on the ground, with her back against the wall opposite from me. She also wasn’t wearing the school uniform entirely properly. Her tie was loosened so much that she might as well not have been wearingit, her blouse was unbuttoned low to show off her cleavage, and she was wearing combat boots, which were strictly forbidden.
“I found it first,” I said.
“Touché,” she said with a grin. She pulled a handful of bright candies out of her bag and held her hand out to me. “Laffy Taffy?”
“Thanks,” I said. I took a green one since my favourite flavour had always been green apple. Sabrina nodded in approval and took a red one for herself.
It was funny to be talking alone with Sabrina. I didn’t dislike her by any means but we’d never really become friends either. I’d seen a lot more of her since she and Eli started dating a year ago but only ever in groups. She and Madison got along a lot more, though even they didn’t go out of their way to speak to one another from what I’d seen.
“Where are you supposed to be right now?” she asked.
“French class,” I said. I wondered how many people were actually in the class right then, because Lewis and Jaxon were both supposed to be there too. “What about you?”
She smirked and held up a pink slip of paper. “Detention.”
“You’re skipping detention?”
She shrugged. “It seemed like a rather stupid way to waste my time. Besides, it’s Mr. Rogers running it; he won’t even notice I’m gone.”
Mr. Rogers was the oldest teacher in our school at nearly ninety years old. He only taught one class a semester and ran detentions, which meant a lot of people skipped.
“Yeah, that was probably a good choice,” I said. “What did you get detention for?”
She looked at me in disbelief. “Have you seen my outfit?”
I laughed. “Good point.”
Uniform infractions didn’t usually lead to detentions but it did happen whenever somebody ignored the dress code consistently, which Sabrina did.
“I, uh, ran into Jaxon,” Sabrina said. She rested her arms on her knees, with her hands dangling down.
“Oh,” I said. I looked out the window again. It made sense that Jaxon told Sabrina about our conversation; they told each other everything. The thing that surprised me more was that she came to talk to me about it.
“He can be pretty stupid sometimes,” Sabrina said.
I snorted. “He’s stupid all the time.”
Apparently, I was one of the few people at school who recognized that. Even Madison, who wasn’t friends with him either, found him fun to be around.
Sabrina chuckled. “Yeah, I guess that’s true. The point is, he shouldn’t have asked you out like that.”
“He send you out here to do his dirty work?” I asked.
“He didn’t think you would want to see him.”
“He was right.”
“Look at that,” Sabrina said in a fake bright voice. “You two finally agreed on something.”
I rolled my eyes but couldn’t help the smile that tugged at my lips. It definitely was an uncommon occurrence.
“I’ll leave you to it,” Sabrina said. She stood up and brushed off the back of her skirt.
“Hey,” I said. She looked at me curiously. “Did Jaxon tell you about the other stuff that happened in the common room?”
Sabrina’s eyebrows pulled together and she tilted her head. “No. What other things?”
