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Tessa’s POV My entire body had gone numb. The other students had silenced, and their attention was directly on me. I shouldn’t have been so careless. Now they know that I’ve been here before. “Yes, we knew one another from before I came to teach at the school,” Joseph spoke up, turning all our attention to him. My heart was about to burst out of my chest at any moment. What was he doing? “We’ve been pen pals for a short while,” Joseph continued. “I’ve been acting as a mentor to her.” Everyone looked back at me with wide and curious eyes. “You and Joseph Evergreen were pen pals?!” One student gasped. “You are so lucky, Tessa!” Another student chimed in. “How did you end up pen pals with him?” I met Joseph’s eyes. He watched me like he was waiting for me to tell them the story. To