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A fat blond kid was standing over Tyler, looked like a bloated version of him and I realized this was Tyler’s brother or cousin or so see, see what happens when you run your fucking et higer was gonna shoot hiroup, and I was standing there in the parking lot by hedDVDs, he spent his days carrying roofs up ladders But the strangest thing, the sickening thing, was the urge that flashed through e to BITE--

--and I knew this was it again, that I had lost time, that I had lost myself Then I felt a pull onaround my midsection

"Come on Come on, David"

Amy circled around, her hand on my sleeve

"Amy, I--"

"Co ot behindme toward the Bronco

"Come on, David Take deep breaths You’re fine"

"A Vrrroooooine sound as she steeredme She reached around me and opened the door, then pushedwith handcuffed suspects She slammed the door, circled around and sat in beside lanced outI reached up with a shaking hand to twist the key and realized the engine was already running I tried to slowI couldn’t keep ive uy’s ass"

"Aets up and beats the crap out of you"

WE GOT BACK to my house to find it ransacked It was difficult to tell because I’reatest house keeper myself, but by the time I was in the kitchen I knew they had been here: I don’t norun and prowled around the house, finding it eed the question by pointing out what a pity it was they tossed the place because it was iot here and that it was too bad she didn’t get to see it when it was clean I went to the kitchen and ran water overknuckles

"Look," Amy said, from behind me "They threw laundry all over your floor in there"

"Yeah And they wore the clothes first, the bastards"

"And ere they looking for again?"

A pause I was on the verge of revealing as probably our biggest and erous secret to someone whom I had known for all of a day I let out a breath and looked right into her eyes The irises were too green, that was the thing Like grass after a week of spring rain And there was a piercing, electric intelligence in those eyes that I was too stupid to notice before Seeing right throughrealization that I probably could not lie to this girl, for one very simple reason She was s for the soy sauce I know they didn’t find it, though"

"The what?"

I didn’t answer I did a walk around the house, saw if anything was broken It looked like they had taken the batteries out offan was cracked

A me with questions, suddenly desperately curious The truth was, I wasn’t sure how to explain it After about the fifth ti hand, er to her lips

"All will becoood tioing to punch lancing nervously at the toolshed and praying that the door wouldn’t be standing open

What are you talking about, dipshit? If they ca

I noticed the flag was up on my mailbox This was Sunday I went over and opened it, found a pale inside There was no nae I stared at it with soht be the world’s tiniest old cross on a delicate chain I had seen it before, though seeing it close I noticed that the cross was forether by thread-like wire There was a piece of paper inside, too, a folded piece of stationery bearing a cartoon puppy with a pencil in hiswas in sparkly pink:

Hi! I had a dreaive this to you!

It’s always brought me

luck!!

God Bless!

(Smiley face)