Hope's War

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KAT BALIUK FELT like a traitor.

She hugged her books to her chest and stepped onto the sidewalk as the bus stopped in front of Cawthra School for the Arts, then she turned and waved faintly to her friends. They were staying on until the next stop: St. Paul's Catholic High School. No one waved back. They were already involved in animated conversations without her. Kat's older sister Genya was also staying on the bus with a group of her friends until the St. Paul's stop, but Genya did turn and wink reassuringly at her little sister just as the bus pulled away.

Kat ran her fingers nervously through her dark blonde hair, hoping that it didn't look as flyaway as it felt. Classes didn't start for another twenty minutes. She looked through her wirerimmed glasses towards the concrete steps leading into the school and searched the faces of the students loitering there. Not one she could call a friend.

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