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"The rest of you, jog!" Nelson shouts

The jogging starts up--a staym, Nelson orders everyone to do sit-ups instead

"Don’t talk to me," Anna says, as weyou want to say toto say to you"

"Good," she says

"Good," I say

"Fine," she says

"Fine," I say

"You--"

SheI start stressing And then the stress turns to laughter that tries to bubble up h, I’h

Thatit

My stoin themy pockets for an antacid Anna doesn’t realize I’ve fallen behind until I’ it down, and then when she sees me, she rolls her eyes I’m white hot, like with Kara in the hall, except I don’t want to hurt Anna, I just want her to see what a mistake she’s

made My hand autopilots back into my pocket for another antacid because I can feel"Pathetic," she says

I don’t blaed at the back of the storage rooet it," I say

"You want to be the one to tell Nelson that?"

I sigh and we start shifting mats They’re aard as hell The first tenand the shuffle of the mats as we move them When my arfor me to catch on

"Would you help?" I ask She just stares I grab the edge of a et back to work "Fuck you, Anna"

"Fuck you ," she returns "I thought I could trust you, but I should’ve known you’d stab me in the back, especially after Liz You were never the same after that I should’ve known you’d fuck me over"

I don’t want to hear Liz’s name come out of her mouth

"Anna, shut the fuck up--"

"Don’t tell me to shut the fuck up He was my boyfriend He was my boyfriend for two years, and no matter what you felt about him, whatever you think it was, he was still o of the mat " I didn’t sleep with hiina--"

I’ it until she hears it "I didn’t sleep with Donnie, and Kara is totally setting you up You look like a fool--"

"Regina--"

"Anna, he tried to--"

"Shut up!"

She pushes es dig into one and I’m alone I sit on the floor and close ain, it’s not quite three-thirty, but close, so I leave

The air-conditioning lasts the first fivea spectacular death, and now I’h too many sweaty bodies, and I want to tell everyone to stop exhaling because they’re justit worse

"Hey, Afton!" I only stop for a second, until I realize it’s Bruce, and then I keepHis voice follows nore hi many

"Because Josh says you liked it in the dark"

I face hi Hethe whole ti people to listen

"You know When you have sex You like it in the dark"

"Shut up"