me catch you up on all the drama you’ve missed out on at school—fair warning, there’s a lot.” “Can’t wait,” I replied dryly, relieved to fall back into our usual pattern. “So, I heard the fifth-year girls plotting a scheme called ‘operation binding thirteen,’” she announced, before reeling off a detailed account of the conversation she’d overheard in the bathroom at school. Apparently, the senior girls were participating in a perverted race to get naked with Johnny Kavanagh.

