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Ronan watched hih the skin of his neck

Kavinsky’s pulse stopped

And then, with a violent start, Kavinsky jerked awake, one of his hands fisted His rin at Ronan’s surprise With a theatric twist of his hand, he presented his dreaers until Ronan handed over the dreaht color, right sheen to the plastic And why shouldn’t it be perfect? Kavinsky was known for his forgery

"Amateur," Kavinsky said "This is the way to drea?" Ronan dery as he would’ve been before he started drinking He put his fingers on the door handle, ready to get out "Like, is this going to be what’s funny to you? Because I don’t want this that bad I can figure it out er at him "Give hie Washington letters, ‘Dear Dick, drive this, ex-oh-ex-oh Ronan Lynch’ "

Ronan wasn’t sure if it was Kavinsky using his real na that did it, but he dropped his hand from the door "Leave Gansey out of this"

Kavinsky made a whoo shape with his et your stuff froht?"

The forest "Mostly"

"Go back there Don’t go anywhere else Why would you want to go anywhere else? You wanna go where your shit’s at That’s where you go You’re thinking of what you want before you go to sleep, right? You know it’s gonna be there, in that place Don’t let it know you’re there It’ll change on you if you do You’ve gotta be in and out, Lynch"

"In and out," Ronan repeated It didn’t sound like a drea thief"

Kavinsky revealed another two green pills in his hand One he kept for himself The other he offered to Ronan

"See you on the other side?"

Fall asleep Yes, you fall asleep You are awake and then you close your eyes and thoughts press in and lucidity invades but then, eventually, you teeter on the edge of slureen pill and he was thrown into sleep Hurled into it Dashed, wrecked, destroyed into sleep He rolled onto that shore a crushed version of hione beneath hirinned Thief? He had been robbed

In

Out

There was the object he had planned to take Was it? He couldn’t tell what it was The trees wrapped their branches around it Orphan Girl tugged and tugged

In

Out

Kavinsky’s voice, very clear: "Dying’s a boring side effect"

Ronan snatched theInside him, a ventricle jerked restlessly Blood poured into his empty atria of his heart

"GET OUT!" screamed Orphan Girl

His eyelids flashed open

"Welco, sailor" Kavinsky leaned over him "Remember: You take the pill, or it’ll take you"

Ronan couldn’t ave his chest a supportive thuht," he said a lips and finished it hie outside the windshield, like time had passed, or the car had moved "What the hell do you even have there?"

Ronan’s arlass Camaro in it It bore no resemblance to the boohtly better reselass car was an anonyuely shocked

"Dear Dick," Kavinsky said "Drive this!"

This tihed Kavinsky showed hiraved on the ly "Sneak in, sneak out Get your stuff, get out Before the place notices"

"Fucking pill," Ronan said

"It’s a wonder drug Myshit in the house, I grind one of these for her Put it in her smoothie You can make a joke there, man It’s easy Go on I left it wide open for you"

"What is your place?"

Kavinsky set twoto the beat of the speakers The song slyly told Ronan: Аре махай се, аре махай се, аре махай се Kavinsky handed him a beer

"My secret place? You want into h "I knew it"

"Fine Don’t tell me You put pills in your mom’s drink?"

"Only when she steals my stuff She wasn’t such a bitch back in Jersey"