After lunch, I had a free period. I couldn’t go home alone, and Brooke had classes so she didn’t finish until the end of the day, so liked to spend my free period up in the library doing work.
My laptop at home was so slow that I figured it would be a lot less frustrating if I logged into one of the library computers to do the work for my computer science class. It just wasn’t worth having to redo everything five times because the laptop kept crashing.
I went to my locker to pick up the books I needed to take up to the library, and as I turned around after putting the padlock back on the door I caught a scent of that unmistakable aftershave and heard the door to Principal Sharp’s office close.
I was certain that Blake had just gone in there, and guessed that he would probably be findin
