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Spencer rocked coyly from side to side "Just to study And it’s fun at parties"

"Aren’t you worried about getting caught?"

"I’ve got it under control, Hanna Promise" Spencer rolled her eyes

Hanna was about to saythat so her Kelsey stood a few paces away, her eyes fixed on Hanna

"Uh, hey," Hanna said aardly, waving

Kelsey didn’t say hello back She stared as though she could see right through her

Slowly, Hanna backed away, unnerved by both of them As soon as she did, Kelsey rushed to Spencer’s side and started whispering Spencer glanced at Hanna and laughed It wasn’t even her norly and mean

Maybe that hy, aKelsey Surely Kelsey had been the one who’d introduced Spencer to drugs, et hooked It was exactly how she’d rationalized it when they thought they’d killed Ali in Jaone on to kill again

But Tabitha wasn’t Ali And now soht knohat she had done to Kelsey, too

A figure appeared over her, and Hanna looked up There, also looking eous than he had at the flash mob, was Liam He wore a pinstriped shirt and jeans that fit him perfectly His wavy hair was pushed back fro bone structure Just looking at him sent ripples of pleasure across the surface of Hanna’s skin

"Hey," he said, grinning a bright, excited smile at her "You look incredible"

"Thanks," Hanna said, feeling bashful "So do you"

She slid over on the couch so that Liaht next to her He put his ar, but it quickly turned into a kiss The background , thuhed raucously and downed shots

Finally, Liah, running his hand through his hair "Just so you know, I’irls into alleys to lad you said that," Hanna breathed out "I’irl, either"

"It’s just, when I saw you, and e talked" Liaical happened"

If any other guy had said it, Hanna would have rolled her eyes, thinking it was a cheesy pickup line But Liam seemed so earnest and vulnerable

"I don’t even knohat o to the quad yesterday," Liaroup of three very pretty, very thin coeds in barely there dresses swept through the revolving door and shiet out ofover an ex-girlfriend"

"I recently broke up with soh nohen she tried to i crayon scribble

"Then we can get over theirlfriends?" Hanna asked

Liauys love you"

Hanna wanted to snort She wasn’t about to tell him about her disaster with Sean Ackard or how she and Mike had crashed and burned "I’ve done okay," she adrinned

Hanna touched the end of his nose playfully "I think I need to know a few e of that"

"What do you want to know? I’irl with PMS when it comes to Dairy Queen brownie blizzards I cry at romantic comedies and when the Phillies won the World Series The saddest thing in the world hen I had to put my twelve-year-old mastiff to sleep, and I’led "Aw, poor baby"

Liam traced a swirl on the inside of Hanna’s wrist "What are you really afraid of?"

All at once, every light in the bar seeaze on her from across the roo A, she wanted to say to Liaot when Tabitha was about to push me over the roof The fact that I actually killed soed "Um, I don’t like enclosed spaces"

"What if someone you really, really like is in the enclosed space with you?" Liauess that’s okay," Hanna whispered

They started to kiss Hanna wasn’t sure how many minutes had passed, and she al in his pocket Finally, he pulled away, checked the screen, and winced "It’s my mom"

"Do you have to take it?"