He kept maintaining he wasn't upset that she had gone after Courtney. Courtney had deserved it, Ryan had told Jess, and it was Jess's honor that was b...ing sullied, so he didn't mind at all. But Jess still felt uneasy. Finally, she asked him about it."Look, it's just weird. After Worlds, OK? I have to get through Worlds, and I have to do it with Courtney. After that, we'll settle all this once and for all."Jess wasn't all that comforted by that, because she was sure that Courtney was twisting. Story to tell there, I expect,” replies Cynthia and adds with a sly smile, “oh, and by the way, I will remember about the ‘unfortunately’!”Corinne chuckles at Cynthia’s flirtatious remark and says: “You don’t know the half of it. Look, we need a Senior Team Meeting after dinner tonight. That’s what I came to tell you.”“Senior Team Meeting? That sounds serious. So, an interesting afternoon with the McEwans, I guess?”“You could say so...”ReactorCorinne, Charlotte, Josephine, Ylena and Cynthia are. I'd never imagined aworld where he wouldn't be mine."So, it was for me too."Tactless cow. Apologies weren't enough, too little too late - lookingback on my screams and shouting made me squirm. When Lexia had mostneeded a friend, that should have been me.When she'd finished painting, she sat beside me on the bed. Stretchingout my legs I wriggled my toes next to hers and you couldn't tell thedifference in our biology."You know," I said into the quiet, "it was really hard for me. To findout you. I tried to push away from the window to get away from him to make the burning pain go away. He just held me tight and told me to relax and the pain would go away once I relaxed. I looked out the window again trying to block out the pain. It looked like my music teacher had spotted me and had walked across the road to get a better look. I panicked and told the older man I had been spotted and he needed to let me move away from the window. He looked over my shoulder and said relax it is ok he is.