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And after dinner, while Lisa washes the dishes and Chaeyoung dries them with an old dishtowel, Chaeyoung’s cell phone chimes in her pocket. Chaeyoung spreads the jelly onto her biscuits in that quirky way she always does—with grape jelly on one half and strawberry on the other. Jess Miller is a focused, driven high school senior whose only goal is to get into the strict Christian college that her late mother attended.The energy in the gym changes instantly: the crowd erupts, the band launches into the school fight song, and the center of the gym is flooded with color as the football players, decked out in their blood red St. I feel sick,” the girl says, her voice coming out like the compressed cry of a feverish child, “I want to go home. Shackleford stands on the court sidelines, slicing her hands back and forth over the air in an Enough kind of gesture, and then she walks to the center of the gym and takes the microphone from Clay.

She runs a hand through her hair, her smile relaxed and unguarded like it is when she tells Lisa stories late at night.

Hannah sings quietly under her breath, keeping her eyes on Baker the whole time, watching her tuck her hair back behind her ear. He bounces up and down on his toes and pounds his fists against each other,