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say so,” Audrey shrugged. “But I still can’t decide if you’re doomed or not.”
    “I hope when I get old I’m not so negative about everything.”
    She choked on her pizza. “I’m not being negative. I’m trying to be realistic. Age does that do you.”
    “You’re a terrible Big Super. You’re supposed to encourage me.”
    “Ha! One, I already told you this would be a bad idea. Two, you don’t even know what a Big Super is supposed to be like because you have no reference,” Audrey ticked off on her fingers. “And third, it doesn’t matter if I’m a bad Big Super or not. You won’t remember me after your mind wipe, anyway.”
    She had a point there. I changed the subject. “How come you didn’t tell them about my powers situation?”
    “Because Nathaniel is kind of a goody-two-shoes,” she explained. “He likes to do everything by the book. If I told him that you don’t have any powers, he would have said that means that you don’t need to go to the Academy. I don’t necessarily disagree with him but I do think that if you want to try, you should be allowed to,” she added.
    I took a sip of my root beer. “You know him pretty well, huh?”
    Audrey shrugged. “I haven’t worked with him that long. He was my probation supervisor and now I’m working on this task force he put together. But he’s pretty much a golden boy so I know he’s not going to be up for any shenanigans.”
    “How can you even stand to be around him when he’s so, so. . .” I trailed off, unable to find the words to describe him.
    “Hot?” Audrey offered.
    “Charming,” I shot back, but I already felt the blush creeping up my neck and into my face.
    Audrey shrugged again. “You get used to it. Besides, once he’s yelled at you for messing up a mission or two, he stops being so hot. You gonna eat that?” She pointed at the last slice of pizza. I shook my head no and pushed the tray over to her side of the table. She scooped it up and snarfed it down, while I chewed on my own thoughts.

Chapter 12
    Thursdays were always my favorite day of the week. Sure I had to go to school and it was still one more day until the weekend. But on Thursday nights, Mom and Dad would let Jeannie, Skye, and Marty run the show at the diner, and we’d all go do something together.
    It was little stuff. Nothing big. Maybe a movie. Or a rare dinner out. I always got to pick, though. When I was eleven, I made them take me to the night show at the planetarium seven Thursdays in a row. It was the same show every time but I loved it.
    After Dad was gone, me and Mom tried to keep it up the weekly tradition but it wasn’t quite the same. And then Skye followed her boyfriend to LA and Mom went back to working Thursday nights.
    That’s why I was kinda shocked when Mom slowed down during breakfast just long enough to suggest that we go to a movie that night. “But what about the diner?”
    “It hasn’t been very busy lately. I think Jeannie can handle it by herself. What do you think?”
    I scrambled for something, anything to say. I had plans with Audrey that night, but it wasn’t like I could tell her that. “Um, I actually had plans tonight.”
    “Plans?”
    “I, um, I—”
    “Excuse me? Ma’am?” One of the customers waved at Mom and went over to find out what he wanted. There seemed to be something wrong with his eggs. Mom had to take them back to the little kitchen and argue with Ray about it.
    I took a deep breath and thanked God for the interruption. I had no idea how I was going to finish that sentence I’d just started. What excuse was I going to use?
    Mom badgered a fresh pair of eggs out of Ray, delivered it to the customer, and was back at my side in less time than I would have liked. But by then, I knew what I wanted to say. “Mom, I didn’t want to tell you this but I got a tutor.”
    Her face lit up. “For the SHSAT? I thought you weren’t going to do that.”
    “Yeah, well, I’ve been thinking about my future