The Five Paths by Isobel Bird

Author:Isobel Bird
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780061756559
Publisher: HarperCollins

CHAPTER 10

“Where is it?” Annie asked Kate and Cooper anxiously.

“Let me at least open it,” said Kate as she flipped over the first few pages of the Sentinel. The girls scanned each page, looking for Annie’s editorial.

“There it is,” Cooper said, pointing.

Annie’s column took up the left-hand side of page 3. The three friends stood reading it as other students walked by on their way to classes. Annie looked up and was both anxious and thrilled to see that a lot of other people had grabbed copies of the school paper from the stack by the front door and were reading them.

“It’s great,” Cooper told Annie when she had finished reading.

“Not as great as the piece Amanda Barclay did on you in the Tribune this morning,” said Annie.

As promised, Amanda Barclay had indeed written an article about Cooper’s run-in with the school board. Cooper couldn’t even find anything in it to complain about, except perhaps for the fact that it was buried on page 17 instead of being closer to the front. Amanda had even mentioned the fact that Cooper was starting a petition to get the school board to reconsider its decision. Cooper was hoping that might make it easier for her to get signatures. She’d written up the petition with her father’s help and had it in her backpack, ready for signing.

“Hey there,” Sasha said, walking up to them. “How does it feel to be celebrities, you two?”

Cooper and Annie pretended to be shielding their faces from paparazzi. “Please,” Cooper said breathlessly. “No pictures.”

“You’ll have to speak to my agent,” Annie added as both of them laughed.

“Freaks,” someone muttered.

The girls turned to see who had said it, but nobody was speaking to them. It could have been any of the students walking by, but since none of them actually stopped to say anything, they couldn’t tell who had spoken.

“I’m afraid you’re going to get a lot of that,” Kate told her friends.

“Maybe for a while,” said Cooper. “Then it will all blow over.”

“I see you agreed not to wear the pentacle,” Sasha commented to Cooper.

“Yeah,” Cooper replied. “My dad said I should play nice for now, at least until we see if this revote comes off.”

“Do you think you can actually get enough signatures on that petition?” asked Annie.

“We’ll find out,” said Cooper. “Why don’t you guys be the first three to sign it.”

“How about the first four?”

Cooper turned and saw T.J. standing behind her. “Did you see the article?” she asked him.

“Both of them,” he said. “Good job, Annie.”

“Thanks,” said Annie happily.

“And what did you think of the one about me?” asked Cooper.

“You know what I think about that,” answered her boyfriend. “But I’m going to be supportive and not say anything.”

“Good boy,” Cooper said, kissing him. “Now sign.”

She handed him her petition, and he wrote his name on the first line.

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