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Junior's after school today?

I'm free as a bird. Me too.

Don't you have dance practice?

Not going.

What? Why?

I decided I don't want to dance with the Powsers.

Belle, you're captain. You have to. I don't have to do anything, and I

wouldn't mind if you guys were on my side.

Belle.

We fly so high.

We fly together.

We are a girl gang like birds of a-

I can't believe Belle's captain.

She's trying to usurp me. You what?

Usurp. Like, take my place?

Just part two?

Who else is smart?

Claire. Claire Fitzroy? Why would you care?

I don't. It's just that last semester she tried to usurp me.

Usurp. And she's a problem, just like all those other culture women.

Aren't you mad that Herman used to be on your team and then she just switched?

Why would you say that?

I just thought... What you should think about is how you're going to stay on

top. Right now you're the most popular guy in our school, but everybody's

talking about Leo McCoy. Leo McCoo?

Exactly. Some new kid. All I'm saying is we need to watch our backs.

Hi.

You play violin?

Since I was a little kid.

Wow, so you're like some type of musical genius?

Well, I'm first chair on the Attaway Middle School Orchestra, so basically

one step away from Vivaldi.

Is he an eighth grader?

Vivaldi was a famous violinist.

Uh, yeah.

Well, you'd only know that if you played violin.

Well, maybe you can, like, teach me.

Teach me?

Hey, you know you can recycle that, right?

Look, it's the chicken girls.

They are so annoying.

Hey, call me after school, okay?

Sure.

Sorry about that. No one here cares about anything.

Well, maybe you should do something about it.

And hit.

I should... Just give up.

You just need better roles.

Here.

See, I've totally lost it. You just need to stop leaving blocks open and not

stack so much.

Or maybe you're not just talking about backgammon.

Sorry. It's just, um, without the dance team, it's like nothing went as planned.

I mean, I'm not the manager anymore, and I have no one to talk to about it since

my sister's always gone.

I just feel... Lost.

Exactly. You just need to find your backgammon.

I thought that's what we were doing.

No, backgammon is my thing. Your backgammon is your thing.

You know, something that gives you, like, a sense of purpose.

Or maybe I should just get really good at backgammon and then beat you at it

every time.

I wouldn't count on that. Hey.

Lila, you made it.

Yeah, just had to shuffle around my very busy schedule.

Same.

I was joking.

Same.

Alright guys, here's the deal. So many of you know I'm graduating in a couple

of months, so I'm gonna need you guys to pick it up. Whoa, do you have a tattoo?

No, just a permanent marker.

Cut board and trig.

Guys, can we pay attention?

Which is why I'm running on a zero waste campaign.

Running? Yeah, for school president to keep up.

Doesn't that mean people have to vote for you? Of course, silly.

It's an election.

Oh, right.

Are you trying to say that nobody's gonna vote for me? I didn't say that.

You might as well have.

You think anyone's gonna vote for you for class president?

Well, she's the only one running.

Ugh, come on, PK.

The only one running?

All right, kiddos, I'm heading out. Anyone need a ride?

I'm going to finish up some edits on the drama club article.

Great. Just turn all that stuff on when you're done.

So, have you been at the Appeal for long?

A couple of months.

Just little news hits, mostly for the website.

Try not to crash it this time.

You heard about that?

You're notorious.

Very girl with the dragon tattoo of you.

I should get going.

See you around.

Okay, yeah. See ya.

Mind if I sit?

Be my guest.

Are you really not doing the dance team?

Really, truly.

When I first moved to Attaway, I was seven, and I literally had no friends.

But... Then one day my mom made this computer program and it had this little

turtle you can move around the screen and I called him Blinky.

Blinky was seriously my only friend.

Is this your way of saying you prefer a fake turtle to me?

What I'm saying is one day when I got home our computer died and Blinky

was gone forever.

But then I got a skateboard and I went to the park the next day.

And I met Eggie and Walker and Gus.

And just like that, we were all best friends.

And why are you telling me this?

Because I spent a whole year on a fake turtle instead of going out there and

making real friends.

Those power surge girls don't even want to be my friends.

Until this year, I didn't think the chicken girls wanted to be my friend.

But here we are.

You were born to dance, Belle.

Go get them.

Hey, McAdams.

Oh, um, Leo.

Hi.

Are you, um, happy to be back?

It's chill.

We've moved around so much.

My dad's in the army, you know.

Army brat.

So are you going to be here for a while?

Yeah. My dad's leaving the service.

My guess is we'll settle down for a while.

We were stationed at this place before, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Not much to do there.

Not much to do here in Attaway either.

Are you going to try it for football?

No. Drama club.

Really? Yeah.

Moving around a lot, you learn to play different parts.

I'm good at it now.

I've never really thought about it that way.

I gotta go eat dinner.

See you around, McAdams.

Looks like Belle's a no-show.

Not a good look for a captain.

See, I told you she wouldn't come.

You did.

Maybe she's smarter than we thought.

Look, that's enough, ladies. If she's not here in the next five minutes, then

we'll have to elect a new captain.

I nominate Simone. I second that nomination.

All right, then. Our new captain is... I'm sorry I'm late. I was working on our

new routine. I can take her from here, Ms. Vaughn.

Okay, ready? Five, six, seven, eight.

Next week on Chicken Girls. Vote for Claire. Claire Fitzroy for class

president.

Cool it, Egg. Who are you guys talking about?

Lea LaCroix.

I am so sick of hearing about this kid. And you must be our new student.

You.