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She laughs, "No way"

I grin at her, "Way" It does sound silly

"He’s not as stodgy as we thought I guess huh?" She et comfier I don’t love her face on my pillow like that My nose wrinkles involuntarily

The thought crosses my mind and I send hiht you were’

’Ah, so you see me as human now?’

’Just barely!’ I syood Bit of a wanker’

My phone rings I roll away froht fall asleep

"Hi"

His voice is deep and relaxed, "I thought he was your dreale, "Who even says dreae of the blanket I’hs and I’m not entirely sure it isn’t relief, "Why? Did he hurt you?"

I press uess so"

"How?" His voice is angry The switch is fast and slightly creepy

"He didn’t…like…touch…od, what?" He sounds panicked

I moan, "No Helike made me drink water from a sports bottle he touched and hs I’ve never heard a full laugh from him before It sounds like he’s pulled his hands away, and his laugh is an echo in the silent roo No awhen he speaks, "I’h I very nearly ht he’d done so to fixto push me and I don’t want that Not froirl at school Not a project to fix" I realize I’ve raisedat the cold floor

He clears his throat, "Have you considered he sees you as a girl Not all girls are whole when you ht now, you are a broken girl That doesn’t mean that you’ll always be broken That doesn’t ain, "I’ll call the doc She’ll want to talk to you"

The tears in my eyes don’t co to make the world the way I need it to be My words don’t coht away I don’t hear the click on his end when I whisper, "I’m not broken" But he isn’t there He never really is He is thethere

Chapter Five

Weeks have passed and I have not seen him

I miss him

I don’t knohat his number is or how to find him

I can’t find ot lost

I even attempted to use his name and 411 but that is an impossibility People only have cell phones, which are hard to track I almost asked Stuart to help uy doesn’t want

Sebastian has evaded me

"He’s still an asshole?" She mutters it over her laptop

I look at her and frown, "What?"

Shell smiles, "I saw the look in your eyes"

I shake my head, "Just tired No look"

"K I won’t say I saw him yesterday then"

My heart almost jumps out of my chest, "What? Where? Did he talk to you?"

She nods with a sinister grin

I throwher co the laptop She shoots ernail, "That better not have done anything to that I was done"

"What did he say? Why didn’t you tellso sneaky?

She opens the co in half"

She laughs, "He said he was good and asked me a million, no maybe a billion, questions about you"

"Like what?" I quickly grab my pillow and put it back

"He said he s had worked out"