I grabbed my bag and headed for the door.
To keep them from getting suspicious, I made a point of patting Molly on the shoulder before I left.
"Be careful when you buy the devices. And tomorrow morning, when you're showing everyone how to use them before the exam, don't forget about me."
"Don't worry!"
Molly caught my hand. Not a trace of suspicion in her eyes.
"No way we'd forget our star class president!"
Once I was out of the classroom, I stopped at the corner and waited.
Sure enough, the moment I was gone, worried voices drifted out from inside.
"Molls, I heard they're cracking down hard at the exam center this year. What if we actually get caught?"
Molly glanced out the window toward the hallway.
I pressed myself flat behind the corner wall.
She didn't spot me. After scanning the corridor and seeing no one, her brazen laughter rang out from the classroom.
"So what if we get caught!"
Molly nestled right up against Ethan,
and the two of them said it at the exact same time:
"If we get caught, Miriam takes the fall!"
A wave of cheering erupted, and then someone asked in a small voice,
"What if Miriam won't admit to it…"
"She doesn't get to say no!"