❝Why do always call me Cherry?❞
❝Because your lips taste like Cherries.❞
When teenage supervillain Havoc stands up to the head of the League of Villains, Colby Madden's family is forced to change their identities and relocate to a sleepy Texas subur...
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𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐁𝐘 & 𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐃 through the front doors of the school hand in hand. He still looked a little pale from the week he'd been sick, but Aveline was glued to him like a protective shield, her fingers interlocked with his. Every few seconds he gave her hand a light swing, playful and content.
Hartley rushed toward them the moment she spotted them, waving her phone in the air like it was on fire.
"There you are! We have an emergency!" she announced.
Aveline tightened her hold on Colby, bracing. "What happened? Who's hurt?"
"Amy!" Hartley gasped. "She texted me 'HELP' in all caps. I thought she was dying!"
Colby blinked. "Is she dying?"
Hartley didn't answer—she bolted down the hall like a track runner. Aveline and Colby exchanged a confused glance before following her.
They found Amy leaning casually against her locker, bored as ever, picking at her nails.
Hartley skid to a stop. "Amy, what's wrong? Your text—'HELP'? What happened?"
Amy yawned. "Oh, yeah. I need you to run home and grab my math homework."
Hartley stared at her in disbelief. "Amy. I thought you were in danger."
"Oh, I was," Amy said dramatically. "Mr. Thatch said I'll fail this unit if I don't turn it in today. So yeah, huge panic, obviously."
Aveline groaned. "Are you serious?"
"And Hartley?" Amy added sweetly, "I'm gonna need you to do my math homework."
Hartley crossed her arms. "Amy, I am not doing your math homework."
Amy smirked and lifted a worksheet. "I figured you'd say that, which is why I already wrote my name on yours."
She and Aveline both gasped.
"What?! Give me that—Amy!" Hartley reached for the paper, but Amy hopped away like a gremlin.
Suddenly a sharp shove cut between them.
"Out of my way, Mini-Madden."
Colby stumbled, and Aveline yanked him back upright before he crashed into a locker. "Hey!"
Colby glared. "Gem, I'm taller than you. How am I Mini-Madden now?"
Gem flipped her hair, unfazed. "Oh please. I'm not updating my burns just because you shot up two inches."
Aveline moved in front of Colby, jaw tight. "You didn't have to shove us."
Gem smirked like she lived off causing problems. "Relax, Cherry. It's not my fault you and your clingy boyfriend walk like you're glued together."
