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to me.
                  “It’s okay,” Sadie said leaning against my locker. “Don’t let them get to you.”
    Maggie and Sadie weren’t taking my leaving very well. Sadie kept fidgeting and every time someone would even mention the fact that I was leaving she would zone out in some sort of trance. And Maggie… well, I thought she’d slow down a bit, but she just worked harder then ever before. I think it helped her cope. I finally got the last of my locker emptied out.
                  “Well,” I said, “that’s it.” Maggie and Sadie looked down at the box of my locker’s contents--trying to hide the tears, no doubt. “Come on, guys, you can help me bring this to the car.” My voice started to crack, which only upset me even more. Both nodded and we made our way to the parking lot. I stopped and turned around to take in the last glimpse of my school.
                  As I stood there, trying to absorb it all, Maggie was staring off at something in the school parking lot. “Maggie, what is it?” I followed her gaze to see what exactly she was gawking at, and then I found it. There was Kevin, leaning against a black BMW. Dressed in an elegantly tailored suit, he looked either like a GQ model or an international hitman--I couldn’t decide which.
    “ Anya! Hurry up we have to go!” he shouted.
    With that announcement, about half the school started whispering. Great, I thought with a sinking feeling n my stomach. And it was my stomach that most of them were now staring at, telling me which rumor made it to the top of the list.
                  I put my stuff down, and slowly turned to Maggie and Sadie. “Well this is it, guys.” And then I was showered with hugs. I didn’t want to let go, hoping that none of this would actually happen, that they’d somehow realize they got the wrong girl and I could just get back to my normal, humdrum life. But then I felt an ominous tap on my shoulder. I let go and there was Kevin standing behind us with my box in one arm. “Come on,” he whispered. He gripped me by my elbow and led me away.
                  I could feel most of the people in parking lot still staring at my stomach. I wanted to yell, “Take a picture, it’ll last longer!” but that would only make a better story for them to tell. I got in the car and just kept gazing out the window. Kevin pulled out and started towards my house. I was fuming at this point. I couldn’t take it. This arrogant jerk was taking me to my palace of doom and if I wasn’t going to enjoy it, then neither was he.
                  “You know, you really couldn’t have made my situation any worse,” I muttered loud enough so he could hear.
                  “What are you talking about?” he grumbled.
    “There were rumors going around that I was pregnant and that I was running away with my sweetheart.” When I heard Kevin chuckling , I wanted to smack him. “What is so funny?” I asked, my anger rising.
                  “Nothing, it’s just,” he smiled, “you shouldn’t really worry what those kids say. I mean, you don’t look pregnant.”
    Charming , I thought. “Well, they wouldn’t be dragging my name through the mud if I wasn’t being dragged off to Russia, would they?”
                  Kevin’s smile vanished when we pulled up to my house. “Look, get your stuff and get back in the car pronto. I’m not going to put up with your bratty behavior through the whole flight, so my advice to you is, get happy and get happy fast.”
    “ I’m not a brat!” I shouted at him, sounding exactly like a brat as I got out of the car and slammed the door. I huffed into the house and grabbed my suitcases that Linda had left in the foyer. She wasn’t at home, so there would be no goodbyes. We did all that at breakfast, and it was a tearful moment. Although I had been beyond furious when I found out that she had