Keeley avoided school for a week by pretending to have a terrible flu. She knew her father's aversion to illness—he was a sympathetic puker and incredibly squeamish over all.
All she had to do was put a baggie of hot water on her face for a few minutes each day to fake a fever and she was able to stay safely away from Aaron Hale.
In between makeup assignments her teachers emailed to her and watching a lot of bad reality TV (a guilty pleasure), she tried to think of ways to get Aaron off her back. She had nothing.
If he only wanted her to fall down and worship at his feet, why had he gone so far as to kiss her? Was he trying to get together only to dump her and show everyone how insignificant she was?
She wouldn't put it past him considering his classist nature. More likely than not, the whole thing was nothing but a twisted joke not to be taken seriously. But how should she react when she saw him again? She couldn't avoid school forever.
