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BRENT&039;S BIG BLUNDER!

SISTER GETS AWAY

Cops curious: did he let her run?

Brent read the headline again He was still too e story in thenext to the Volvo It was taken frole,over the scene, so you couldn&039;t see the mother or her baby inside the car You could see the blood that splattered doard from Brent&039;s nose and stained his shirt, and the way his nose was kind of tilted over to one side

Lucy caently "It doesn&039;t hurt any more, does it?" she asked

"No, it&039;s completely healed It felt kind of weird for a while but then I figured out why It was bent out of shape when she punched ht position The paramedic who checkedacross my face like that"

"Yuck," Lucy said

"He said norets their nose flattened like that, norain to put it back in the right shape"

"Okay, stop," Lucy told hi her out "I could feel ititself"

"Stop! I know I said I would always be there for you, and yes, I guess that&039;s true, but if you tell me one more nasty detail I will totally walk out the door, and I know for a fact that you don&039;t want that, so be quiet, okay, cease and desist, be still, for me?"

He frowned and sat down next to her on his bed "Sorry," he told her "I&039; I could and the newspaper acts like I dropped the ball &039;Cops curious&039; I o, but then Weathers threatened to have him demoted on the spot and he backed down Everyone as there saw ht her, if I hadn&039;t had to catch that car - "

"Would you have beaten her up?" Lucy asked

"I - I don&039;t know," he adain And she would have run away again" He thought back to the ie had hit him "Except, there was this onemade sense That et in a serious fistfight with Maggie How messed up is that? My dad would have been ashamed But if she had stuck around, I think I would have hit her back She&039;s my sister, Luce Why did I feel that way?"

"Letone hand up and down his back "Before you got your powers - you and she fought a lot, right?"