Chapter 41: Grumpy Zander, Quiet Kellan and Amity’s Corbin-1

I smoothed my hair back nervously.

“Hey again,” I said, no longer able to pretend to be interested in the ceiling.

The girl just looked at the floor.

“Don’t be rude, Pity,” said Mom authoritatively.

Kellan had taught me that word: authoritatively. Kellan taught me a new word everyday, a really big one. He said we needed a big vocabulary or in his words “an extensive lexicon” for when we became