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sorry it's taken me so long!!

She fell into step with Mireille, glowing at the girl's little snicker. Finally, someone her age - and a girl, at that! She'd been surrounded by boys and men for so long she forgot how good it felt to be with someone young and hip again.

And she was from the sea!

Girl, boys aren't so tough to talk to! she said with a little grin, they just like to pretend they are. You hold your head high and crack a few jokes, and if they laugh you're gold, and if they don't, she shrugged, well, then you keep goin' till you find someone who does. Easy as that! for Jasmine, at least - but then, she hushed herself and leaned over, as though conspiring, but girl, they get weird this time of year, though, she thought of Swiftcurrent, and before that, the pirate boys, who'd turned into actual animals around the older girls this time last year, but they blame it on the spring.