Half the class noticed.
Once, when a new student had accidentally taken her preferred seat in the back, she had made such a fuss that she'd sulked the entire class when forced to sit up front.
But today?
Today she would sit anywhere anywhere at all if it meant putting as much distance as possible between herself and Damien.
For the past week, Jacqueline had perfected the art of avoidance.
She no longer sat beside him at the back of the class or anywhere near him, for that matter. If she spotted him walking toward her down a hallway, she would quietly change direction. And whenever she accidentally caught him watching her, the smile on her face would disappear as though it had never existed.
Her friends noticed immediately. The shift in her attitude toward Damien was impossible to miss. They questioned her about it, but she brushed it off lightly, saying that since he had ignored her first, she was simply returning the favor.
