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“Please,” she said, clapping her tiny hands together as she hopped, causing her thick black ponytail to bounce Everything about Syd was sfoot—a redheaded Bigfoot “Please It will be soto be the last tiet away Surad school classes are going to suck up all my time”

And I’d be puttering around, being larad classes like the loser I was turning out to be

Plopping down on the edge of the bed in the apartment she now shared with Kyler, I tried not to think about all the indecent things those two had done on said bed Or think about the constant rerad school, or starting their careers while I was…unchanged

Stuck

Even though I kept changing , I was still stuck

“But it’s a cabin in the woods of West Virginia,” I said, shaking off troublesonore “That’s like the start of every horrorcannibals”

Syd narrowed her eyes “You had no proble to the cabin in Snowshoe”

“That’s because that cabin is in a tourist town, and this cabin sounds like it’s in the middle of the mountains,” I pointed out “And may I remind you what happened the last tiot snowed in and some crazy dude attacked you”

“That was a freak occurrence,” she insisted, waving her hand It had taken her a long time to be so flippant about the event, but I noted that for this trip she and Kyler had rented a different cabin, rather than going back to the one his fao back to that cabin “And the house Kyler and I rented is actually near Seneca Rocks, so it’s not that re to run into the chupacabra or a pack of aliens”

I snorted like a little piglet “I’ered hillbillies”

She folded her arms across her chest “Andrea…”

Exhaling, I rolled ered hillbillies running around” Truthfully, I’d found West Virginia to be very beautiful every time I’d visited