Keeley successfully avoided Aaron for a month by eating lunch behind a bunch of bookshelves in the library, sneaking out the back entrance of the school and going to a different subway stop, and looking over her shoulder everywhere she went.

　　Her friends were worried when she stopped showing up at lunch but she told them that she needed to spend more time studying and would hang out with them on the weekends, which appeased them. Grades were no joke to scholars.h.i.+p students.

　　Literature cla.s.s was a slightly different story. Aaron took every available opportunity to talk to her. It was made worse by the fact that Mr. Weisz frequently asked the students to discuss part of the text with their neighbor.

　　Keeley made a sincere effort to address the questions and nothing more but Aaron had other ideas.

　　"The Valentine's dance is in two weeks. Are you going with anyone?" he asked boredly, as if the answer couldn't possibly matter to him.

　　"No. I have other plans that night."

　　Plans that included staying far, far away from him. They went together in her first life and Lacy 'accidentally' pushed her into a punch bowl in front of everyone.

　　Lacy had to know about what happened the day Aaron didn't join his usual group for lunch. Everyone in the student lounge buzzed about it for days, according to Lydia. The last thing Keeley needed was to be targeted by that witch when she wasn't even involved with her wannabe boyfriend.

　　"What plans?"

　　"Plans with my friends," Keeley said with an air of finality.

　　"I see." The conversation ended there because the teacher ended the discussion time and called on people to share their answers.

　　Lydia and Jeffrey were both in her last cla.s.s of the day so Keeley broached the subject to make sure she actually did have plans that night after it ended.

　　She invited them for pizza and video games at her place. What single person could turn that down?

　　"Sorry, I got asked to the dance," Lydia said apologetically. "Why don't you two come together? We could double up; it would be fun!"

　　Panic flashed through her eyes. She forgot that Lydia had a date before since she was caught up in Aaron's group of friends. No! She couldn't go anywhere near that dance!