Mackenzie stole the class snake and hid it on his chair. When he sat down, it bit him on the ass. We were friends ever since. But her parents and my dad had this stupid rivalry. Some kind of business deal that went sour when Dad first came to the city. I brought her over for dinner one night, and you’d have thought I proposed marrying a streetlamp the way they reacted. Our parents forbid us from being friends, so we hung out in secret.”
