more Sara/Saul arguing

this actually makes an appearance in the novel

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When school ended I thankfully accepted a ride home in Emil's new Plymouth, and while it made me feel terribly selfish, I just couldn't bring myself to wait around for Saul, because his first hour teacher had given him an after-school detention for that morning's tardy. Thankfully, my best friend was of the accepting, generally easygoing variety, and he didn't seem all too perturbed by my decision when I informed him at lunch.
"And I'll have you know that I wouldn't have waited for you either," he told me matter-of-factly.
"That's bosh, Saul," I told him. "In fact, you owe me at least one wait. Remember that day last year when I waited by the bleachers to walk with you to town? In fact, I waited fifteen goddamn minutes for you to finish snogging Pia Grünwald-"
"Hey, hey—she wanted a little kiss so I gave her one! Didn't want to hurt her feelings-"
"You really are a gentleman, Saul. Taking one for the team, were you?" said Erich, grinning broadly.
"And you looked so miserable while she was tonguing your face: positively wretched," I added.
"She was not tonguing my face, for God's sake-"
"Bollocks, yes she was."
"Taking advice from me and Anja, were you?"
"Shut your face, dwarf," snapped Saul.
Erich snorted. "Another short joke—you really are the most original person in the world, aren't you?"
Saul presently shoved his friend off the hood of the Ford. "Anyway," he said, "it was just some friendly kissing. What do they call it—French kissing?"
I let out a crow of laugher. "Oh, you are so full of rubbish," I told him. "There is nothing friendly about sharing saliva, you belligerent shithead."
"Fine! Fine, yes I was snogging Pia Gruenewald," groaned Saul at last. "And yes, Sara, I know you hold her intelligence in…low regard, but she's very nice and very attractive-"
"See? I don't mind you kissing and telling, so long as you tell me the truth. They're your lips, not mine."
"Is somebody jealous?" quipped Anja from the truck bed.
"Oh yes, because I've been waiting for Saul to offer me a chance to swap spit for so very long."