Riley by Susan Hughes

Author:Susan Hughes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2016-06-22T04:00:00+00:00

I bet she’s going to copy my haiku, thought Kat angrily. And, sure enough, just then Grace bent over her own notebook and began to write.

Grace was a copycat.

Then Kat smiled. She couldn’t help it. A copycat copying a poem about puppies! The idea gave her the giggles.

Kat survived until the bell rang for lunchtime. She met up with Maya, and they went to her house to eat.

After lunch, she managed to avoid Grace. But, when Kat came in from afternoon recess, Grace’s desk was smack up against hers. Maybe someone had bumped it when they had left for recess. Maybe someone had pushed it too close.

Grace wasn’t there yet, so Kat got up and grabbed the edge of her desk. She would just move it back to where it had been. It didn’t have to be so close. She gave it a shove.

“Hey!” It was Grace, and she was glaring at Kat. Her arms were straight down at her sides, and her fists were clenched.

Kat’s stomach tightened. “I was just…” she began.

“Yeah, I see. I know,” Grace said in a tight voice.

Kat could tell she was trying not to yell. Just then Ms. Mitchell called, “Okay, class. Attention, please.”

Grace sat down, and Kat did too. She kept her eyes on the front of the classroom where Ms. Mitchell was starting her lesson.

But then something caught her attention. She stole a look.

Grace was pulling a folded note out of her desk. Grace’s name was on the outside of the piece of paper. She read the note, and then her face went hard, like stone. The note must have said something nasty.

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