Chapter 5

I was relieved when she stood up and urged Luci to do the same.

“We’ll meet you guys at the usual spot?” Luci suggested, and Zoe and I nodded.

“Bri, what’s going on?” Zoe asked as soon as Luci and Keeya melted into the crowd of other students who were making their way out of the dining hall.

I quickly glanced around. There were still too many people in the room for me to be comfortable with telling her.

“I have to go to the bathroom. Meet me in the library?”

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It hadn’t been a total lie that I needed the bathroom. I always needed to use the toilet whenever I was nervous. Where most people got an irritable bowel, I got a nervous bladder that made me feel like I needed to pee every five minutes.

Having relieved myself and washed my hands, I wandered silently through the halls of the academy until I came to the huge double doors of the library.