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ant to come in

house, expensive liquor stolen from his parent's w

in silly costumes, thirs

if I didn't, people would notice. And Micheal would be disappointed becaus

into the noise, it

rom a corner. Someone clapped me on the back

drawled, already half drunk.

d and just st

, and the strong sten

hand. I was never one to take alcohol. A

moved-faster

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self searching for h

to come to the party-Maeve could

the first time in a long time, I wa

at Michael's house

o I just grabbed a soda, traced my way to the minibar in a corner of the livi

opened, and it wasn't S

she'd chicken out and move to another planet so

she'd dress as-if s

ened again, and I lift

then p

oom s

irst thing I noticed.

erfectly in my head every night, a short skirt, knee soc

-of c

o the crowd, and I just knew she wanted to melt

lf, I was on my feet. To

ush through the bodies, calling for Maeve,

body collided int

he adjusted her glass

red before I co

ed, and she tugg

ng else vanished and all I could see w

her how good-st

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re?" I tilted my head.

ed. But before I could get any other

She asked, the almost realistic

ly. Like I was avoidi

didn't

it to me,"

tunned than worried. B

tell me you

ged herself. "You didn't ask. You

rms. "Well, I had to

those two

de me com

ed in

she might combust

g for thirsty, then no,"

h

urther into the long sleeve and tu

l, y

everywhere for you. You let go-" her eyes shifted to Br

"I knew I smelled you ar

tly. She was one of the

d w

o put Sydney in this?" Brooklyn snapped

hange that?" Maeve shot back. "What have you do

's jaw t

fe while your sister keeps drowning," Maev

to break out, an

the beginning, and she never hid

dn

ack, her arms around her, her eyes on Brooklyn and

wanted to throw up and had

e I was sitting. But someh

oser, maybe separate Maeve and Brookl

rd, not caring who she w

ribs, my head screamed. 'C

didn't

here I was,

were sti

ey t

-the light

shrieked, and g

ered back on alm

n fixed!" Micheal announced, wine bo

ed to where the gl

y the door, her body