Once get 2 my locker, like a scene from a John Hughes film, the locker door closes & Petey is standing right behind it, way 2 close 4 com4t. My heart skipped a measure & then ran out ahead of me 2 go catch the school bus home. She said, with the sweetest baby-like tone, “So, Prince, what’s it gonna B?” Much 2 my surprise, Joanne & Denise were standing right behind me, both with mistletoe, dangling it over my head. As Petey moved slowly closer 2 me, my heart came running back down the hallway & jumped in my chest, now pumped up from courage, where it belonged. Everything that happened next was
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