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Once inside the house Maggie went straight to her room and slammed the door Grandma went to the kitchen When Brent and Lucy headed for his room, however, she leaned around the corner of the doorway and scowled "This your girlfriend, boy?"

Brent&039;s eyes ide He stared at Lucy, then back at Grandether so you to the sao When there&039;s a girl in your room, you keep the door open at least one foot, and you don&039;t play any loud e listen to their music so loud"

"You do?" Brent asked He didn&039;t knohether he played his reed "I may look old to you but I was sixteen once"

"We&039;re fifteen, Mrs Gill," Lucy said, with a huge metallic smile

"Reynolds," Brent corrected her

"Mrs Reynolds I uess you were Brent&039;s mom&039;s mother? I mean, of course, you still are Except she&039;s - but you don&039;t stop being so you can - "

"We&039;re just going to sit in my room and talk," Brent explained

Grande glasses "Yes, I iine you will" Then she stepped back inside the kitchen and out of view

Brent went into his roo braces, then flopped on his bed while he put his balloons in the corner Brent always thought better while he was pacing, so he started a circuit of his roo from his computer table over to his poster of Edward Abbey and then over to his closet door before starting over on the sa for five or six laps, Lucy sat up on the bed and grabbed at his arm as it went by "Hey Hey Talk to me"

"You don&039;t believe me I understand that," he told her "I wouldn&039;t believeto say Nobody in the real world has superpowers, nobody in history has ever had - "

"Brent," she said, interrupting him for once "I do"

"What?"

She smiled "If anybody else said it, then, maybe, yeah I would be kind of skeptical But this is you I believe you I always do"

He ran his fingers through his hair and started pacing again, then thought of so and hurried to his closet He threw the door open and started rooting around under piles of dirty clothes

"What are you looking for?"

"Researchout of the closet and threw it to her She caught it easily

She opened the bag and spilled out a couple dozen coht, lurid covers They all showedor about to be punched by somebody else They wore elaborate costumes, some with masks, some with capes

He picked one up and stared at it "I haven&039;t looked at these in years I used to really love these but then after a while they seemed kind of duot bitten by a radioactive aardvark, right?"