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The blush went from pinkish to a deep red

Gotcha

Jonesy looked on with interest "That little tiny girl?"

Alex glared at him

"That chick you just about squished when you were klutzing around? Nice" Jonesy s Alex froth at the mouth

Actually, that applied to everyone Universal Jonesy protocol

Alex clenched his hands, eracelessness in the Presence of Hotness

Alex forced his face into smoothness then said, "Do you think your sister’s nasty ass has been contained so we can go have pie?"

Jonesy shifted his weight "Probably She can’t help it dude She’s like totally ignorant of the bowel process"

"Ignorant but efficient," I corrected

"Yes," John agreed, giving Mrs Terran a covert eye shift

Jade laughed again "You guys and babies! God, get over it So to have to suck up diaper duty"

I sawlooks of horror on John and Alex’s face Jonesy was grinning big now "Yeah I’uys do the fanny fat finger on a diaper change Front seats for that one baby!" He fist-puet over here and hold your sister, she’s fussy"

Alex smiled Jonesy scowled and ran his ass over there to soothe a now-clean Micah

As we followed hi around in Gramps’ sink basin and the low voice of he and Mrs Terran talking Hand washing the china Gra every year

It h the pies When ere done, there were eight empty dishes, a o off

Typical holiday gathering

CHAPTER 24

I pulled up to Sophie’s house, the neighborhood like a ghost town The day after Thanksgiving was either 1) an excuse to do nothing and recover froet tra at some horrible store for Black Friday Or you could be liketo judo practice to work out ression

Which I’d noticed was pretty profound lately Gee, I wonder why

I saw the front door open and Sophie stood in the sliver of interior that it revealed, her pajama bottoms pink sparkly unicorns

Huh

Her mom appeared behind her and I noticed that her skin was almost black coave a s She turned to Sophie and I could tell they were having Words I knew herwhy Buddy was such a great guy in her eyes Didn’t she know he hung out with Carson’s crowd? That should send her adult radar into a tailspin of worry It’d do it to et Mom spun up

Jade slipped out fro about Sophie’sdown the stairs and tocoot out of the car and ran to the other side, opening the door for her

She looked up at me and put her small hand on my chest for balance and kissed ot that I wrappedher in "That okay?"

She nodded "I feel great again"

"No dreams?"

She shook her head "Nobut "

"What?"

"I’ll need a little extra sleep Jezebel said that helps the healing sessions That I ant a little extra sleep"

"So what you’re really saying, is you want to take a nap during judo? You’re not going to seein the car "No, I think I saw plenty of your moves the other day with Buddy!"

Yeah, there had been that I smiled at her and closed the door I whistled to interrupt Sophie arguing with heryou after?" I asked loudly

She crossed her ar buttload of chores to do before I can go"

Okkkkaayy

"K, about an hour or so"

She nodded, stalking into the house Herlike twin orbs in her black face

The door slalad I didn’t have two females in the house Like a sister

With a little shudder I hucked iving a sliding glance at Jade Her neon green zip up fra their beauty She looked like herself again, abuse-free

I took a deep breath, trying to shake the vague unease I felt It was just residual I just wasn’t over the crap with LeClerc

We drove to judo, es of recent events My unease grew instead of lessening

"What’s wrong?" Jade asked, as we turned onto the road judo was on It used to be a ballet place An ihed

Her brow arched

"Nothing I’irlfriend I had a creepy vibe Not happening

"Share it," Jade said, not letting go of wanting to know my amusement

"My dojo used to be a ballet place"