Could Sophie sneak a look at the sign-in book up front before Ms. Lyle returned? She moved pretty slowly, so maybe there was time …

If she could get a photo of Brody Dixon’s name in the library sign-in at the same time as the Word doc had been written, then he’d be done for. Real evidence! Just the image of the time stamp on the doc and a picture of his name at that exact time and the case for guilt would be made.

Sophie flipped through the pages of the sign-in sheet. October 8 … Early morning, before the first period. Who had signed in …

And there she saw them—the names of who had come to the library that day and written the list.

No, it couldn’t be.

Brody had done it. They knew this.

Had he written another name? Or were these accomplices?

It didn’t make sense.

It had to be Brody. It just had to.

Didn’t it?

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EVE

WINSTON: the cool thing about green hornet is that everyone thinks hes a bad guy, so he gets to infiltrate the bad guys and then stop them. hes this rich guy who owns a newspaper who wants to do good. you know?

EVE: A good vigilante

WINSTON: yes! exactly! he also has a really cool car. like the batmobile. ha sorry I could talk about this stuff forever. tell me eve stuff

EVE: Hmmm. I’m really into poetry these days? Oh my gosh it’s so embarrassing

WINSTON: no its not! its cool. but im not so good at that kind of stuff.

i think science is kinda like poetry tho

EVE: How so?

WINSTON: i dunno it sounded smart lol

EVE: haha. I mean, they’re both about finding answers to things. I think. Or trying to.

WINSTON: yeah! and people think theyre hard to understand, but i think once you really get into them, theyre a lot easier than they seem

EVE: Sooo true!

WINSTON: ok so what’s your favorite poem

EVE: k I’ll send you a link but don’t laugh—“The Soul unto itself” by Emily Dickinson

WINSTON: ok im not gonna lie i dont get it but ill keep trying

EVE: ☺ It’s ok

WINSTON: there was this one famous writer a long time ago who thought of himself as a scientist. august strindberg, have you heard of him?

I dont think he wrote poems tho

EVE: What did he discover?

WINSTON: nothing. he thought plants had nervous systems so he walked around with a syringe full of morphine and hed inject apples and stuff to try to prove his theory haha his theory was not correct

fun science fact for you i got lots of em

see this kind of thing is why I got beat up all the time in 5 grade haha

EVE: So what happened to you back then???

WINSTON: I mean I only actually got punched once

EVE: What?!?!

WINSTON: im really just mad they broke my ornithopter

EVE: your huh?