Audrey The next few days were a blur of classes and assignments… and of missing Tina. I hardly saw her, and when I did, our interactions were brief—if we even had an interaction at all and didn’t just turn and run away from each other. To cope with our argument, I threw myself into my work. It was the only thing I could do to distract myself from the ache in my chest every time I saw Tina. She was still giving me the cold shoulder by the middle of the week, refusing to sit next to me in class or even acknowledge my presence. By Wednesday, I felt like I was going to explode. Tina was my closest friend—the only person who wanted to speak to me, the only human at Grayspring Academy, when I had first attended. And now… All throughout class, I could hardly focus. It didn’t help