Olivia The silence was killing me. Why weren’t they speaking? “Are you just going to stare at me for the rest of the day?” I couldn’t bear it anymore. Even when I asked them that, Mara and Andi just blinked and never opened their mouth to speak. They were leaning back on their chairs around our table in the school cafeteria. Arms crossed over their chest, they were to study me. This had been going on for almost five minutes now and I was about to explode. “Do you want to say something? Is there something on my face? What is it? I tried again. When they still didn’t answer, I sighed and leaned back on the chair too. Just when I thought they were to keep being like that forever, they chorused asking, “What’s that on your collarbone?” “What?” I looked down but I