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fingers through mine.
    He grunted in response as he led me out of my classroom and down the long corridor to the exit door that opened up to the playground.
    “I’m going to fix what happened to you,” he said as he pushed the door open and stepped through it.
    I gripped his hand tightly as we walked around loads of children who were playing chase, hopscotch and skipping. We stopped at the girls who were skipping in the spot I’d been skipping on a while ago.
    “Hey, girls, have either of you seen Jordan Hummings?” Kale asked.
    I didn’t know who they were, but they were older than me. They might have even been in Kale’s class because they both smiled wide at him when he spoke to them. I narrowed my eyes at them and pressed closer to Kale’s side. I didn’t like that way they were looking at him. They looked a little too happy to see him.
    “Hey, Kale.” The girl with the bright red hair and lightly freckled skin beamed. “I did actually. He’s gone behind the prefabs with his friends. I’m not sure why, though.”
    Kale smiled to the redhead. “Thanks, Drew.”
    Drew’s smile touched her ears. It was that big.
    “Anytime,” she replied, tucking a piece of her luscious hair behind her ear, a coy smile on her lips.
    I didn’t like Drew; I didn’t like her at all.
    I tugged on Kale’s hand when he didn’t move. He was just standing there, looking at this Drew girl with a weird, goofy look on his face, and it made me mad.
    “Kale!” I snapped.
    He jumped a little, then looked down at me and blinked as if he’d forgotten I was there.
    “She is so cute – is she your sister?”
    Kale looked away from me and back to Drew when she spoke.
    “Lane? She’s actually my best friend. I’m really close with her brothers and family. She is pretty much my sister.”
    The look of admiration Drew shot Kale really ticked me off.
    “Wow. That’s really cute, Kale,” Drew said, and lifted her right hand to her shining red hair, twisting her fingers around the en d of it.
    I wanted to chop the hair off her head. She touched it way too much.
    “It-it is?” Kale stuttered, then had to clear his throat because it made a funny noise.
    Drew nodded. “Yep. I think it’s really cool that you look out for her.”
    Kale acted differently then. He shrugged his shoulders like what Drew said was no big deal and then untangled his hand from mine so he could leisurely drop it over my shoulder. “Well, you know. Someone’s gotta look after her. She’s six but she’s really small for her age. She’s only a kid.”
    I frowned up at Kale and decided I didn’t like how different he was around this Drew girl and her friend with blonde hair who did nothing but stand and stare at him since the moment he’d asked where Jordan was.
    Jordan.
    At the reminder of why Kale was even talking to these girls, I tug ged on his hand to get his attention, and when he looked down at me I said, “Jordan.”
    Kale blinked, then shook his head clear and set his jaw.
    He looked back to Drew. “You said Jordan went behind the prefabs, right?”
    Drew bobbed her head up and down. “Uh-huh.”
    Kale winked. “Thanks, beautiful.”
    He turned to me then and said, “Stay here with Drew. I’ll be right back.”
    With that said, he walked around me and headed in the direction of the prefabs. I was on the verge of tears because he’d done something wrong. He’d called Drew beautiful, but that had to be wrong because he said I was the only beautiful girl in the world. Just me. He always told me that.
    “Did you hear that?” Drew squeaked to her friend and clapped her hands together like a seal at the zoo. “He called me beautiful. Beautiful ! ”
    Drew’s friend jumped up and down and squealed. I resisted putting my fingers in my ears to block out the horrible noise.
    “I did,” Drew’s friend said as she too clapped her hands together like a seal. “I so did. Oh, my God! He so likes you! Did you see how he couldn’t stop staring?