Page 77 - Save the Last Dance for Me

previous day.

Then she did something else

unexpected. As some of the young

men moved to switch seats to be by

her, she turned to me and said,

“Tom, would it be okay if I check

my homework answers against

yours?”

I was so surprised I didn’t

know what to say, so I just nodded.

I slipped past her and sat down in

my seat from the day before. The

other guys stayed where they were,

a couple of them glaring in my

direction.

When I finally found a voice to

speak, I asked, “You know my

name?”

Bonnie nodded. “You

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