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"I don’t knohen she left," Mo after you went to California and didn’t coured shereally poorly, so I went over to her apart, and, well, she was just gone Her landlord said she left a check to cover cleaning and a note saying that she quit her job and was leaving town"

"Why?" I ask

"No idea She’s never see Ellis"

"I told you," I hear Indie’s staccato voice froround "She must have taken that new job"

"What’s that?" I ask

"So closer to the speakerphone "She was asking all these e CeCe had worked here, where she’d worked before, and stuff I don’t get why everyone is worked up about it So she quit and took a new job in a town that actually hasI’d left Ellis for bigger and better things It just surprises me that she hadn’t called to tellyou’d heard et over her not saying good-bye"

"It doesn’t make any sense," Moht up until you …"

"Right up until I left," I say, finishing the thought for her

Chapter thirty-one

HADEN

"He’s not even singing," Tobin whispers to Daphne They sit on the other side of the half circle of chairs in thethat he thinks I don’t knohat he’s saying I can’t actually hear their words over the singing, but I have spent the weekend , however, is that Tobin has caught on to the fact that I’ with the rest of the choir Daphne looks up at book in , but I don’t kno to make aze leave lance back at her

"Maybe he’s just intirarow hot at the idea that she thinks I a book on fire

"Maybe he doesn’t kno to sing"

"Then he shouldn’t be here at all" The hard-lined look on Tobin’s face makes me wonder what exactly his problem is

"Leave him alone," Daphne whispers to hiuy I thought he was"

"I think he’s exactly who you thought he was"

Mr Morgan shoots the This song is supposed to be for the rock opera that Daphne’s father is writing--or so the teacher had explained at the beginning of the class period It’s a chorus piece, which apparentlyI findshe were I want to know if her voice is as enchanting as I rean addresses the class "Very good Very good But we still have a lot of work I want this song ready to present to Mr Vince for his approval by the end of the week Now for another matter," he says "The mayor has asked ht-up Olyn up to do a ht of the festival?"