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We laughed and he glowered It’d be okay He irlfriend that didn’t mind his perv-vibe I looked after Randi She’d been interested

Tiff s you even with your weirdness" She grinned wider "Ya know," she popped off the table onto her feet, "I’ll set ya up, Alex"

"No way, you absolutely don’t have to," he said, his face contorted in alarm

"No I like it," Jonesy said "Set up Goliath here with the waif-princess"

Alex groaned, putting his face in his hands

"No hoot one of theroup"

"I’m not a houys focusing on gay stuff again?"

God, aard-much

I shook irl ca by"

"Merranda Chen, di but dihter Mental forehead-slap

"Anyway," he gave her a look, "she heard hi a perv"

"He called hi for clarity

John shook his head

"Let me," Jonesy said

Oh no

"The deal was is when hottie ca his lack of perviness"

Archer held up a finger, "I have to offer dissent here, it was you that last week told uy that coh clenched teeth

We all looked at hiain

"Oh for shit’s sake, it was on the news!" he yelled

Jonesy looked at him "So you share this with Archer? Okay" Jonesy said slowly, giving Alex a significant look "So, he was defending his non-perv status and then Miss Hotness cruised past, heard hihed "How’d that go?"

Jonesy grinned "Mia confirmed his pervness and she walked off, none the wiser"

"Choice," Tiff said

"Dude!" Alex yelled at Jonesy

"If it weren’t true you wouldn’t have been outed by the cute girl," Tiff said with a flash of logic

"Wait," Archer said and we looked at him "I don’t think you can really label Alex that way ’Outed’ isfor accuracy at any cost Huh

Jonesy shook his head "Nah, I like it as a label for muscle-head here"

Sophie and Buddy walked up "Can you believe this?" she started co her pulse-reader around like a weapon Of course, it meant way more to her than to the rest of us

I was okay with not raising corpses while I slept

Yeah

Jade caet out of it," she said as she slid her ar better that she was there

Buddy sucked Sophie in against him and Jonesy opened his mouth

Always a bad idea "Let stud there protect you He’s got the moves," Jonesy said, all sarcasm

Buddy did have the aaze steady I stared right back

John looked at the two of us "You guys aren’t going to have a problem, are you?"

"No, we’ve buried the to choice of words, Hart," Buddy said

"Yeah," Alex agreed, givinglook

Zombies, tomahawks, zombies, tomahawks Hmm the Hart Anthe hed "That’s Caleb Default-violence-automatic" He threw up his hands like, duh

Jade frowned and Tiff sot back on topic "Yeah, have your boyfriend watch dog it, Soph He’s AP"

Buddy narrowed his eyes on him "Spoken like someone that doesn’t know shit about Astral Projection"

"What’s to know? You float around in real his ars "Then land somewhere cool Ya complainer"

Wow

Buddy stalked over to him and they stood toe to toe

Great

"Listen you shit-for-brains, there’s soirls in this school, right now So realot one, as serious as I’d ever seen him "Then do your job, dick You’re her boyfriend so protect her"

"I am!" he bellowed in Jonesy’s face

Sophie went forward and Tiff gripped her ar her head like, shortbruise on Sophie’s face Kinda slow on the learning curve there

Jonesy leaned into the screa, said, "See that ya do Otherwise, we’ll have to run interference And our groups don’t exactly run together Do you feel me?" Jonesy asked, his nose a fraction of an inch away frouys on point Then Buddy seemed to pull back into hi Sophie after hi after her

Jonesy looked the longest

Target acquisition:

The agent read the pulse e carefully Twice

His superior was ready to irl but a practice run The one they really wished to terminate was now ripe for dispatch

Sophia Morris

It was perfect, really With the implehter