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CHAPTER 7

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kay, class, so today we’re going to do a Physics project—
and it includes only two partners,” Mrs. Jean said.

with? Oh, great. So without my best friend here, who will I partner
“And the project is about the studies we learned from gravity and

mass last semester,” she continued.

Wait, what? How the heck are we going to do a project on gravity
and mass that we learned three months ago? And we just started

school—why are we doing a project so fast?
Right after Mrs. Jean talked about what we were supposed to do

for the project, we thought we should start picking out our partners. But

she suggested she should do it—and I knew that meant a terrible partner
for me.

“Okay, Elle,” she looked at me. I really hoped it wasn’t someone
who would bother me. “Your partner is Travis.”

Oh. I actually wasn’t expecting that.
“Both of you should start working on your project at one of your

desks.”

I was kind of—and not kind of—surprised. I mean, Travis? The
new kid was my project partner? Although, I was lucky it wasn’t one

of those annoying boys in the class. I took out my notebook, pen, and
Physics book and waited for Travis to come to my desk, because I was