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Neither option seemed right.
    â€œI’m talking to you,” Rick yelled, slamming Max’s shoulders into the locker. “Did you just push me?”
    Oh my God. Even my good deeds backfired. I managed to make the situation worse for Max. Maybe I was evil.
    â€œAnswer me,” Rick demanded.
    Max shook his head no.
    â€œYou look up while I’m talking to you.” Rick smacked Max’s chin.
    I jumped up from behind the trash can. “Leave him alone.” It just came out of me. I couldn’t help it.
    Both Rick and Max turned in my direction, noticing me for the first time. “Aww, look, Max,” Rick said. “Do you need a girl to come save you?” Porter laughed like Rick had actually said something witty.
    â€œNow before that little freak show goes and tattles on us, tell me you’re sorry,” Rick instructed Max.
    â€œI’m sorry,” Max whispered.
    â€œLouder,” Rick said.
    â€œSorry,” Max repeated. I didn’t want to watch this; it made me feel as nasty on the inside as Rick was on the outside.
    â€œGood,” Rick said. “And if you ever push me again”—he slammed Max into the locker—“you’re going to be sorry.” Then he walked off with Porter behind him.
    And I thought girls were bad.
    â€œAre you okay?” I asked Max as soon as the guys left.
    He turned away from me. “I’m fine.”
    â€œAre you sure?”
    â€œI’m fine, Angel,” he whispered again. But I was pretty sure he was holding back a sob.
    I didn’t know whether to stay or go. I was afraid my being there was making it worse. Max had been crushing on me since forever. And there was nothing more embarrassing than being humiliated in front of your crush. Another thing I knew all too well . . .
    Disappearing shirt . Need I say more?
    I didn’t want to torture Max the same way. But I couldn’t really leave. So we just stood there in silence.
    â€œDo you want to come sit with Gabi and me at lunch?” I finally asked. Max always wanted to do stuff together.
    But he didn’t take me up on it. He shook his head no ever so slightly. “I have to get to my tutoring session.”
    Then he left, not even making eye contact.
    So much for doing good.

chapter 6
    â€œYou should have seen it,” I told Gabi as I stabbed my spork into my mashed potatoes. “They were absolutely awful. And Max just stood there. There has to be some way to help him.”
    â€œMaybe we can spread a rumor that he’s Lance Gold’s cousin or something,” Gabi suggested. Lance Gold was the hottest actor ever.
    â€œNo one will buy that. Max is like the opposite of Lance.”
    She took a long sip out of her juice box. “Maybe we can give Max a total makeover?” Gabi suggested. “Like one of those eighties movies where they help the really geeky kid get a new look, a new attitude, a new everything, and the kid ends up ruling the school.”
    â€œYou want us to do that?” I asked. “Everyone either ignores us or hates us. What do we know about being popular?”
    â€œ You made it to the A-list.”
    I rolled my eyes. When my dad first came back into my life, he “helped” to get Courtney and Co. to like me. “For a millisecond. And that was because Lou used his powers.”
    Gabi paused and then gave me a huge stare-down. “Correct me if I’m wrong, but Lou’s not the only one with special powers. . . .”
    â€œYeah,” I said. “And when I tried to use them to help Max, I almost got him beat up. Not exactly what I was going for.”
    â€œYou only tried one thing. Maybe you just need a different approach. A different power,” Gabi said, fiddling with the wrapper from her straw.
    Was she hinting I try something advanced? I grabbed the wrapper from her. “You know I don’t know how to do anything really cool. Not properly, anyway.