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Contest. However, I overheard Ericka talking about me in science class.
    â€œIt’s not like it was first place, you know,” she said and Tori agreed. So I didn’t win the contest. What had they won lately? Then Ericka made a remark about my hair.
    â€œLooks like a dye job,” Ericka said.
    â€œA bad dye job,” Tori said.
    â€œShe only got picked because models have to be super scrawny. Who knows, maybe washed-out hair colors will become trendy,” Ericka said laughing.
    I walked over to my seat and slammed my books on my desk. Tad congratulated me on the writing contest, but all I could focus on were my ex-friends whispering on the other side of the room. Devon was absent, but we were doing a worksheet so I didn’t mind sitting alone. We watched Anne Frank in history, and India and Peyton congratulated me on the contest.
    â€œSo what are you wearing for your audition?” Peyton asked.
    â€œI got an outfit from Franciszka T. It has a black and grey striped long sleeved sweater, and then it’s like a strapless grey dress which goes under it with a wide black belt.”
    â€œIt sounds cute. Devon’s super excited about the whole thing,” she said. “Her mom kept her home because she’s had a sore throat last night.”
    Great, the girl I shared ice cream with was home with a sore throat. Fabulous.
    â€œHer mom’s so overprotective,” India said peering at the TV. “Hey, is it the guy from Schindler’s List ? I can barely see from here.”
    â€œPut your glasses on, dork. Yeah, it’s him. Landry, what chapter are you guys on in French?” Peyton asked.
    â€œOh crap. I forgot to do the homework for chapter nine,” I said. I couldn’t even do the work now because I had left the handout in my locker.
    â€œChapter nine? She handed those back in my class.” Peyton went through her binder and pulled them out. “Here, just copy them on notebook paper and tell her you spilled something on your sheet.” I started to thank her, but she cut me off. “No, you helped me out before.”
    I spent the rest of the movie copying her work. It was a good thing I had my homework done because Mrs. Aniston freaked out when Thalia forgot hers, and she wouldn’t give her a pass to get it out of her locker. Mrs. Aniston said we had to be mature enough to bring our homework to class.
    Devon was back the next day. “Congratulations,” she said. I asked if she was feeling better.
    â€œYeah, but now I have all this extra work. I had to take a math quiz during lunch, and now I’ve got the stupid lab from the other day to do,” she said as Mrs. Tamar came over to see if Devon was going to stay after to make up the lab assignment.
    â€œI don’t have a ride home today,” she said. “Could I do it during lunch on Monday since the field trip is tomorrow?”
    â€œWell, I have an appointment, so I won’t be here then…”
    â€œI could come in during lunch to help,” I said. It’s not like I had anything better to do.
    At the end of the day, Ms. Ashcroft announced what cars we’d be in for our field trip to the art museum. It took about a half hour to get there, and it would suck if I got stuck in a car with one of my ex-friends. Ms. Ashcroft read off my name, along with three boys, and Ashanti and Tori. Great, with Ashanti out sick and Tori acting like Ericka’s new best friend, the trip would be a blast. I thought about pretending to be sick tomorrow, but Mom would never let me miss school unless I was throwing up. I called Ashanti when I got home to see if she was feeling any better. I was hoping she’d say the doctor realized she didn’t have mono after all, but then she told me she had a blood test and she was definitely going to be out of school longer.
    â€œWe never go on a decent field trip, and I’m on my deathbed the one time we do. Too bad you got stuck