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Chapters (38)
  1. Prologue
  2. Chapter One
  3. Chapter Two
  4. Chapter Three
  5. Chapter Four
  6. Chapter Five
  7. Chapter Six
  8. Chapter Seven
  9. Chapter Eight
  10. Chapter Nine
  11. Chapter Ten
  12. Chapter Eleven
  13. Chapter Twelve
  14. Chapter Thirteen
  15. Chapter Fourteen
  16. Chapter Fifteen
  17. Chapter Sixteen
  18. Chapter Seventeen
  19. Chapter Eighteen
  20. Chapter Nineteen
  21. Chapter Twenty
  22. Chapter Twenty-One
  23. Chapter Twenty-Two
  24. Chapter Twenty-Three
  25. Chapter Twenty-Four
  26. Chapter Twenty-Five
  27. Chapter Twenty-Six
  28. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  29. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  30. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  31. Chapter Thirty
  32. Chapter Thirty-One
  33. Chapter Thirty-Two
  34. Chapter Thirty-Three
  35. Epilogue
  36. Preview of Sick Kids in Love
  37. Acknowledgments
  38. About the Author

Don’t believe me? If I wasn’t, how would I know about the top-secret elevator that is underneath the gym? You know, the one only upperclassmen know about?

How would I know that the softball captain sang the best rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody while standing on the diving board above a certain party hoster’s pool this summer? How would I know that a JV soccer player nearly broke his leg zooming down a hill on a minibike on an icy night last winter?

Have I proven myself yet?

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Chapter Six

Chapter Six

Dean

NightLocker: Crash before 2am?

PixieBurn: Does it look like it?

NightLocker: Didn’t mean it like that

PixieBurn: Sure

NightLocker: I didn’t stop coding until 4

PixieBurn: Overachiever

NightLocker: Have to be to beat you

PixieBurn: Flattery won’t help you win

NightLocker: DC!

I frantically typed our standard code word for killing an illegal chat—DC, aka don’t chat, don’t code—when a teacher was too close to walking by one of our screens.

Amber quickly clicked off-screen, allowing the Spanish assignment to fill the space. Mrs. Francesca wasn’t the strictest teacher at Wilmont, but she’d be pissed if we were caught.

After she’d taken an unexpected walk around our quiet classroom, I flashed Amber a smile. She was six rows away from me, and we’d adapted this way of chatting a couple years ago when we’d gotten bored during Computer Science class. It was a good, solid class. It simply was teaching us things we’d known for years—it wasn’t until we’d accelerated to the more exclusive coding courses that we were actually challenged. The one saving grace of this school were those higher-level computer classes. And though Amber and I had always been in competition with each other, we’d come up with the code word to let each other know when push came to shove, we hackers had each other’s backs.

Or, at least, Amber and I did.

The word had saved me plenty of times—even when I hadn’t been actively chatting with her. A few times she’d thrown it in a chat box on my screen when I’d been coding or locked into another hack.

Amber yawned as she tried to return my gesture.

I chuckled under my breath, giving her a too-knowing look.