“I’ve been talking to this boy named Jordan, and he invited me to go to the bonfire with him on Friday night, and I got all excited, but then he invited my friend Julie too. So now I don’t want to go because he invited her after he had already asked me to go with him. And when I told him I didn’t want to go, he told me I was making a big deal out of nothing.” I made a show of mulling it over. “Grace, I think there’s only one thing you can do.” “What?” she mumbled in the most sour tone I’d ever heard as she stabbed another bean. “Change your name, move schools, and never be friends with anyone
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