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The Fourth Horseman, excerpt 2

Here's the second excerpt from The Fourth Horseman, the beginning of Chapter 2, in which Suzanne makes googly eyes. ***** Chapter Two When I came to Benowa High School in the middle of spring semester, fresh out of rehab, I hated the place.   The kids were mean and stupid and boring, and I didn't fit in with any of them.   School was a time-suck I had to suffer through until I could get back to my real life, even if that real life involved me sitting up in my room with my dog.   At least my dog was cute. I fully expected to feel the same when I started this fall as a junior, but things had changed.   Maybe they would have changed anyway because I was no longer new, just another student like everyone else, but I thought it was mostly because I was now associated with Gabriel and Merri Beryl.   Gabriel was popular because he was a jock, that simple.   He was more popular because he was good looking and nice and because his power as an Earth allo