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Alessa:Are you trying to make the rest of us look bad?

Conor:;0) Who, me?

Star:Lol.

Maverick:What did you do, brat?

Kat:Hey, I resent the implication that I’m a brat. I was defending someone’s honor.

Conor:Whose honor?

Star:You got my attention.

Maverick:The next time she’s with us, Alessa, she’ll be even worse. These two are as bad as each other.

Kat:This kid was picking on the lunch lady in the cafeteria. He said she was on ‘minimum wage’ and that she didn’t have the right to tell him what to do.

Conor:I think we’re lucky you didn’t smack him.

Star:You spit on the kid, right? Not the lunch lady?

Kat:Star!

Star:I know you too well.

Kat:Not well enough. As if I’d spit on Mrs. Reisz. She’s so nice.

Conor:What did you spit on that belonged to the little bastard?

Alessa:They’re not going to punish her for using spit as a weapon, are they?

Maverick:I doubt it. You need to calm down, babe. I know you’re reading up on this shit but it’s just a schoolyard prank.

Alessa:Saliva transmits diseases, Maverick. You’re lucky, Katina, that you only got a detention.

Kat:I don’t think the principal likes the kid either. Even if his dad has this big business in the city and gave the school a library.

Conor:We can give them a laboratory if you want, Kat?

Kat:Oooh, is that an option? Can you upgrade the gym?

Conor:If you want.

Alessa:Is this your idea of a punishment?

Kat:Alessa! I was totally in the right.

Conor:Wouldn’t say ‘totally.’ Alessa has a point. If we encourage spit, what’s next?

Star:How about this… Kat, if you don’t work on your impulse control, the only place you can practice cartwheels is in the gym.

Kat:WHAT?! That’s so unreasonable. How am I supposed to get better?

Star:You get better at the gym.

Kat:It’s not like I can practice in a yard anymore.

Alessa:You can practice when you visit here.

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