"That one freshman with the giant glasses is always yelling about his homework," Rue says, skirting Marcus's pointed comment. She knows what he's getting at, and truthfully, she's trying not to think about how it reminds her about how Ali basically fucking blindsided her outside of an NA meeting just to call her a liar.

He'd been right, but that wasn't the point.

"He's probably enough of a handful to keep you busy for years."