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I a er needed to breathe I floundered around on the ingh it did awful things to my hair) I drank a bottle of bleach, and the only consequence was a startling case of dry mouth I shoplifted a butcher knife from the nearby Wal-Mart-the place to shop if you&039;re dead, it&039;s three am, and you don&039;t have any credit cards-and stabbeddispiritedly down Lake Street, trying to figure out how to decapitate myself, when I heard low voices and what sounded likeI alood sense returned and I walked through the alley and around the corner I saw three -eyed girl The girl looked about six or so Fear round between theht: she tossed it at them, and tried to run, and they cornered her They don&039;t want her purse They want-

"Please," she said, alood, for me to have heard the to o with you-I&039;ll do whatever you want, just please, please-"

"Moirl&039;s eyes were light brown, almost whiskey-colored, and when they filled with tears I felt soo away, bad men! Leave myto pry her daughter&039;s fingers free and h "She&039;s tired-it&039;s late-I&039;ll go with you-"

"Don&039;t want you," one of the irl Justine burst into fresh tears, but not before kicking the ground, raining pebbles and grit on the ine&039;s dead but I could-with all of you, just don&039;t-don&039;t-"

"Hey, assholes!" I said cheerfully The five of them jumped, which surprised meI wasn&039;t the world&039;s quietest walker I couldn&039;t believe I was doing this I wasn&039;t exactly the confrontational type On the other hand, what did I possibly have to lose? "Eryou three assholes Not the lady and the kid Fellas, could you coely relieved, Justine sap where she&039;d lost one of her baby teeth Then the rabbed herher toward the relative safety of Lake Street

"I&039;ll-"

"Coet help!"

"Don&039;t you dare," I snapped "If you rabbedme back toward Justine and her ot to-" He poked ht I shoved

The rest of it happened awfully fast Jerkoff 1 hadn&039;t poked ood it did And when I shoved, his feet left the ground and he sailed back as if hurricane-force winds had blown hiood ten feet before he regained his feet and ran like he&039;d had one tooandmy usual vocalization when I didn&039;t understand ("Wha?"), the other two rabbed theether There was a sickening crunch, and I heard-yech!-their skulls cave in It was the sound I&039;d heard at lass The bad guys dropped to the ground, deader than disco Their faces were frozen in eternal expressions of pissed-off

I nearly threw up into their staring faces "Oh, shit!"

"Thank you thank you thank you!" Justine&039;sof fear and Dune perfuth and babbling intoto extricateto rape me kill me hurt Justine kill Justine thank you thank you thank you!"

"Errthat&039;s fine, Miss-uh, o of ered a few feet away, knelt, and started picking up the iterab her back So about her-the blood, the-she had scraped herself, or one of thebeneath her shirt, on the inside of her upper arm, and it trickled steadily and suddenly I was so thirsty I couldn&039;t breathe

Justine was staring up ather cheeks shine in the htful And about five years older than she&039;d looked five o She pointed "Doesn&039;t that hurt like crazy?"

I looked down, then jerked the knife out of my side Very little blood "No Thanks Uhdon&039;t be scared Anymore, I mean"

"Why&039;d you ask them to kill you?"