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to grizzly bear and tear him apart! No. No. Not the kid. Bailey! His
fault. He delayed me, otherwise it would have all worked perfectly.

I stood up.

"Bailey!" I screamed against the crashing waves, shaking my clenched
fists in rage. "I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll murder you!"

He heard nothing, of course, over the sound of the waves. And that was a
good thing.

It occurred to me that killing Bailey was probably an overreaction.

But just the same, it would teach him a lesson.

13 J. finished demorphing. It was a terrifying, hideous experience. But
the alternative was even worse. I demorphed in a total, like, panic! I
wasn't even thinking, just screaming inside my mind, screaming and
begging for it to be over.

I rose from the rocks, so grateful to be fully human, so relieved. I saw
the others, far off. I caught a glimpse of a blond girl, running away. I
didn't recognize her.

Had she seen me?

The earring! There it was, stuck between my toes. Oh, good. It was a
cool earring, really. Not like some of the stuff your parents might buy
you. You know parents. Right?

Anyway . . .

14 I ran back to the others, too.

I needed to be with, like, people. I needed to have familiar voices and
faces around me.

So scared!

I was shaking. I was going to go on shaking forever.

Was I insane? Why had I done something as reckless as morphing a starfish?

And ...

And why had I been so mean to Bailey? All he'd wanted to do was
compliment me. He just wanted to say he thought I was pretty; why had I
been so, like, harsh and stuck-up?

Later I would have to find the time and the right way to apologize.