I took my lunch tray to our spot, but I felt weird sitting all by myself. I scanned the crowd for someone, anyone I knew well enough to sit with, but fortunately, Raven plunked down beside me.“You don’t mind, do you?” she asked.“Mind what?”Dominic slid into the space on my other side. “If we sit with you.”“Dom’s fans never leave him alone long enough to eat,” Raven said.“It’s fine,” I said. “I could use the company. I felt like a pariah all by myself.” I threw a sideways glance at Dominic to see if he’d noticed. I had an excellent vocabulary. Better than a lot of those junior girls who’d been hanging all over him a few minutes ago. He was staring at his Tater Tots, like they held the answer to all his questions, and didn’t seem to notice my showing off.“Where’s Eva?” Raven asked.“I don’t know,” I said. “I saw her after third period and she didn’t say anything about skipping lunch.”“There she is,” Dominic said. So he had been paying attention.
