Science is an investigation," Coach said, sanding his hands together. "Science requires us to transform into spies." Put that way, science almost sounded fun. But I'd been in Coach's class long enough not to get my hopes up.

“Touch her,” he said in Scott’s ear, his voice low and threatening, “and it’ll b…”

“I’m keeping a lot of things from you.”My insides took a steep dive. “Like?”“Lik…”

“Let’s get out of here.” “Where are we going?” “You’ll see.”

“That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said.“But I think you could benefit …”