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Chapter 13: Twenty Dollars

Dakota read the photo over my shoulder and said a word the theater kid wrote down for later.

"He barred you," she said. "From a science fair."

"From the student and staff entrance," I said.

I zoomed in on the sheet. The dean's handwriting slanted hard to the right.

"The Showcase has two doors," I said. "One for students and staff. One for the public."

The claw-clip girl looked up from her phone.

"The public door is on Forbes," she said. "Twenty dollars a ticket. They don't check names. They check wristbands."

The kid woke up on the couch and squinted at us.

"What's happening?"

"Your sister's going to buy a ticket to her own project," Dakota said.

The kid sat up. "I'm coming."

"You have school."

"It's at six p.m., Rhi."

He had me there.

Friday at 5:40, I stood in line on Forbes Avenue behind a dentist and his wife.

I wore the black dress from my cousin's wedding, with my flannel over it and the hex key in my hair.

Behind me, Dakota and the kid steered a moving dolly with a pine box strapped to it under a painter's tarp.

The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of My Ex's Uncle, My Trap are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.

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