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I stayed absolutely still,as I didn’t fidget too h to cancel out the chilly October breeze that blew through our part of don Chicago

I guess there was a reason they called it the Windy City

It was a Sunday afternoon at St Sophia’s School for Girls, and I was squeezed into a tiny square of sunshine on the laith my friend Scout She sat beside me with her arms stretched out behind her, eyes closed and head tipped up to the sky I sat cross-legged, art-history book open in s a little farther to the left, trying to take in the last warm bit of fall

“This totally beats sitting in class,” Scout said “And wearing uniforms”

Scout was dressed in a black skirt and shirt she’d sewn froe from the navy-and-yellow private school plaid we usually wore And then there were the shoes (Converses she’d coated in gold glitter), the hair (a short blond bob with dark tips), and the silver nose ring There was no e “St Sophia’s girl”

“You are totally rocking those clothes today”

Scout opened an eye and glanced down at her jersey skirt “I appreciate your appreciation of ood taste Besides, someone had to rock it out This place is like a dismal swamp of bleh”

I put a hand over my heart “Thank God you’re here to save us, Saint Scout”

Scout snorted and crossed one ankle over the other, her shoes glinting in the sunlight

“And now I knohy I keep finding glitter on my bedroom floor”

“Whatever My shoes do not shed”

I gave her a dubious look

“Seriously That’s justumhorn dust from the unicorns that braid your hair while you sleep”

Scout and I both looked at each other Unfortunately, while I didn’t re up with any mysterious braids, we couldn’t exactly rule out the unicorn part

Oh, did I ic?

Yeah, you heard : “Lily Parker, there’s no such thing as o to your head”

You’re going to have to trust o is ho it out while the rest of the city is asleep And thosefroh School Musical 3, beside me

Scary, right?

Millicent Green, aka Scout, was actually an Adept and a member of Enclave Three

And here’s the second twist—so was I

See, I was actually from upstate New York, but when my parents decided to head to Gerured St Sophia’s, deep in the heart of Chicago, was the best place for h school