P S S 118 Main Level Fire Escape Plan Science Comp Faculty Offices Music Art Lab 1 Lab Guidance Dry Storage to Command Bridge Lunchroom Holographic Auditorium Walk in Freezer Kitchen Robot Power Bay Principal's Office Library Media Science Lab 2 Nurse's Office A Stairwell to engineering reclamation fuel water oxygen stores B Stairwell to hangar bay exit flight maintenance crew quarters faculty quarters C Stairwell to hangar bay exit gravitometric field generator teachers lounge A I Interface Control Access Panel Primary Exit Route Restricted Access Hatch Secondary Exit Route Restroom and shower
to Primary Fusion Reactor Dorm Bloc A Classrooms 1 5 Locker Room Gym Dorm Bloc B to Engine Room Supply Closet Classrooms 6 10 Dorm Bloc C to Secondary Fusion Reactor
1 Zero gravity dodgeball three times since Tuesday So you know it's the end of the year I shuffle toward the back wall of the gym and line up behind the rest of the class If I ever get picked first for dodgeball it'll mean the universe has turned upside down Becka shouts Riya Windsor one of the team captains Becka Pierce trots over to the other side of the gym and gives Riya a high five that sounds like a sonic boom I watch Riya wince and pretend that she doesn't feel like she just slapped a brick wall Shocker I whisper to Ari Becka's always first pick not that this bothers me but I'm hoping I at least don't get picked last today This has officially been the worst year of my life And I'd like to get through the next few hours without being reminded again that I'm the least popular kid onboard the PSS 118
Ari doesn't say a word probably because he can't hear me over the thumps in his chest He's had this cartoon cartoon crush on Becka for as long as I can remember The kind where your heart pops out against your shirt you go all bug eyed for no reason and little pink hearts float up out of your head like bubbles It's super annoying I don't know why he likes her so much She kind of scares me And during gym class she's a freaking nightmare Literally Once after a really intense game of freeze tag my dorm mate Diego woke up in the middle of the night covered in sweat screaming No Becka I'm not it Please I'm not it T Bex T Bex some of our classmates cheer Becka flashes one of her evil grins She's tall maybe the tallest girl in the whole school And a couple of years ago Hunter LaFleur started calling her Tyrannosaurus Bex or T Bex for short So naturally she showed up to the school dance in a giant dinosaur costume who knows where she even got that from and shoved Hunter into the drink table He slipped on some spilled fruit punch and broke one of his big toes when he tried to get up They didn't even have detention in fifth grade before that day But Becka didn't care about getting in trouble She beamed all the way to Principal Lochner's office And now T Bex isn't an insult It's a term of respect Can't believe we're playing dodgeball again I tell him
