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The person was none other than Ian Dawson. He was looking at her indifferently.

Ava frowned at him and stepped aside. "I'm sorry."

Ian did not respond to her, as if she suddenly became invisible to him. She was perplexed by his behavior.

He was okay with her at her mother's wedding. Then what did she do to offend him? She recalled the time he hugged her. She felt a shiver around her spine just thinking about it. She realized she had taunted him by talking with Nova.

Was that why he was behaving cold with her again?

Ava shrugged her shoulders and walked past him.

'I don't care,' she thought, and she went to her class.

It was noon when she and her friends decided to go to the party together tonight.

"I can't believe your brother. He didn't even invite his father or your mom to the celebration party. It should be his father's party, not his," Debra said.

"He said it's a party for us. So he didn't invite Dad. I know even if he had invited Dad or Mom, they would not have come. In fact, the