Howard rolls his eyes. "You're seriously going to go to the library? No one's going to take us seriously around here, Pennywise, no matter how many textbooks you crack. If you haven't noticed yet, you're fifteen and suddenly, we're not the big guys on campus anymore."

Howard returns Albert's skeptical look with a shrug that suggests that no, he has no idea what he did to get shot at, why would Albert suspect it was anything other than a random act of violence?