AAA students graduated at twenty-one. He expected me to stay there for four years! Students there started at sixteen, how would I ever catch up? My mouth went suddenly dry.
I’d rather he sent me to Kalzir.
“I’ll have someone escort you to gather your things and we’ll have you there by nightfall.”
My things? Did he mean my one lousy suitcase of clothes and headbands? Or my hairbrush and toothbrush. It didn’t matter because I wouldn’t be going back to Leo and Lara’s caravan. If I did, I might get out of going to AAA, but they’d be sitting where I am, and in much deeper shit. I couldn’t imagine what the consequence would be for their ‘negligence,’ but I knew it would be far worse than the fate that awaited me.
I shook my head, letting the tension in my shoulders release. “There’s no need,” I told him. “This is all I have.”
He clucked his tongue, his gaze roving over my tank top, torn jean shorts, and frayed headband with a look somewhere between distaste and pity. “Very well.”
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