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that we were invited!” Lydia said, placing her hands firmly on her hips. “Mark invited Joanna and Joanna invited me! And we don’t need an invitation either way! It’s still a free country, and we go to this school.”
    “ Sure Mark invited you.” Teresa sneered, looking at Joanna instead of Lydia. “You wish he did. He’s not interested in anybody but me .”
    Joanna felt herself getting hot. She clenched her jaw together. “Actually, Teresa,” she said in a low voice. “You saw us talking last night at the youth group. You know we are talking.”
    “And if you can’t see how interested he is in her after going out with him for six months, you don’t know him very well at all!” Lydia added in a loud voice.
    “It was eight months!” Teresa huffed. “And I do know him!  Like the back of my hand.”
    “Is that because you keep slapping yourself with it? Duh. Duh.” Lydia lifted her hand and knocked the back against her head in a mocking fashion. “You don’t know him, at all. And you sure don’t care about him!”
    “Who are you to say I don’t care about him? What do you know?”
    “I know that when you go out with somebody for a long time, you get to know their facial expressions, and you can tell whether they are happy or not! I know that when someone isn’t happy, and the other person just keeps forcing it, they don’t really love that person or they’d back off like they are told to!” Lydia’s voice was rising with every other word.
    “You don’t know anything!” Teresa shouted.
    “Apparently you don’t know how to say anything else!” Lydia retorted. “What are you, a third grader? Back off or you’ll have me to deal with! And you don’t want that, little girl. You really don’t!”
    “ I am not a little girl!” As if to prove Lydia’s point, Teresa stomped one foot. The two girls that had been flanking her looked embarrassed and stepped away from her a few steps.
    “You’re throwing a tantrum like one!” Lydia continued. “You need your pacifier, baby? You need to have your diaper changed?”
    Joanna fully expected to see the two girls in a fist fight within seconds when an adult voice behind them made them freeze.
    “That’s enough!”
    Joanna and Lydia turned to see the coach of the cheerleading squad, Ms. Hazlett, with her hands on her hips and an angry look on her face.
    “You girls need to disperse right now! I don’t care who started it, I ’m the one finishing it! If I see any of you fistfighting or causing any more of a distracting scene than you already have, I’ll be taking it up with the principal and your parents!”
    Mark and several of his friends had jogged over from the field.
    “Ms. Hazlett!” Mark said. She turned to him.
    “I’d like Joanna and Lydia to stay if that’s all right. I’ve got a date with Joanna after practice.”
    Joanna smiled, knowing those words had just sent daggers through Teresa, who gasped and had to bite back an angry response.
    Ms. Hazlett must have known Teresa was a troublemaker because she turned back and waved her hand in Teresa’s direction. “You take your girls and go on, Teresa! Leave Joanna and Lydia alone or I’ll report you immediately and have you barred from the bleachers and the field.”
    “But Ms. Hazlett…”
    “ Now , Teresa!”
    Joanna didn’t bother to turn and watch Teresa stomp off, though Lydia did. She turned back and sat down with Joanna, a satisfied look on her face.
    “That was fun.” She giggled.
     

Chapter Four
     
    Joanna looked in the mirror, examining her face closely. She was glad to have smooth skin with no scars left from the few bouts with acne she’d had through her teenage years. She had a few marks from when she got chicken pox during her freshman year. It had kept her from enjoying her Christmas vacation. What a time to get chicken pox!
    She smiled, remembering how she’d zoned out in front of the TV, not even interested in playing the Playstation.
    She put on a