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"Do you need help with that?" I asked, pointing at her tray She walked with a cane, and once in a while she needed an assist if there were too s to balance on the tray

But she seeratulations!" She gave aveabout it"

Her eyebrows shot up "Oh Of course you wouldn’t How ridiculous" With another big smile, she hefted her tray in one hand and carefullyat me, too He whispered the last word "Spectacular"

Rikker leaned in close to o to football games And I’m pissed that I ot excellent pictures After dinner I’e, of course"

My stoave a nervous flutter "We are in such deep shit" I yanked the other chair out for Lianne "Sit down already Wait -- I proht there"

Lianne set her tray down and walked toward the salad bar in the center of the roo happened At the table nearest to the salad bar, I saw a couple of people nudge each other The whole table went quiet The sa happened at the next table Thirty seconds later, everyone who sat lingering over the last half hour of Sunday dinner was staring at Lianne

"Wait," Grahaaze "She looks really fahbor on the fourth floor"

He sat back in his chair "She’s in Beaumont House? I’ve never seen her before"

I reached across the table and gave his hand a warning stab with my fork "Don’t stare"

Lianne returned adoith her salad After a few beats, the ambient sound of conversation returned to the roo her soup spoon "I had this weird idea that I could just blend in here It took ure out that wasn’t true"

"I think it is," I insisted "But you have to actually blend if you want to blend If you ca"

"I have no idea how to blend," Lianne adone to school before"