As soon as I sat down at the cafeteria table at school, Ty walked up to me. "Can we talk?" he asked.

"No," I said. "So get lost."

"Come on, Artemis," Ty said. "I've been wanting to talk to you for so long, but you always had that meat-head around you."

"If you want to talk to me, it would be smart not to call my boyfriend a meat-head," I said, seriously wishing that Seb was here with me at school. Or Dax. But, that wasn't possible. Seb was released from the hospital this morning and was staying at home, and Dax was still in juvie.

For the whole weekend,...