16. Very Old Friends
Mina
Courtney wasn’t joking about giving me more work for the paper.
Pride of the Poets was always scraping for material to report on, even though Prospero High certainly didn’t have the excuse of being a place where nothing ever happened. Naturally, nothing remotely newsworthy could ever be allowed to make the cut. Even strictly human issues, or things that could be sanitized to look like them, were almost always too controversial to include.
For reasons I couldn’t fathom, knowing all the real news that would never be published anywhere had failed to eliminate Courtney’s passion for ensuring the perfect style and layout of articles on bake sales and alumni success stories, although I occasionally saw her looking at her copy of the Need-to-Know Newsletter with an
