What if they turn up earlier, while she and Shoshana are sitting there already?
Ishould have said something.
I really should have.
Over and over, Mimi replays the incident in her mind, a video clip on a loop. Raizy’s smirk, Kayla’s confusion. The rest of the class, glued to the drama.
She’s never seen Kayla look so… vulnerable. And yet… Kayla is so different, who says she even cared?
“Mimiii! Phone!” her brother Benny calls.
It had better not be Shoshana canceling their ice cream date. Mimi feels stifled, too hot, she needs to get out, take her mind off Kayla.
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