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"I am not adorable!"

"Oh I think you are"

"I aued "Cool and self-possessed people do not break wind You, in particular, are not supposed to know that I break wind!"

His lips twitched "I hate to tell you this, babe, but I already knew that you broke wind Part of the human condition and all that"

I shook my head defiantly "We should just end it now All the ain as he reached down to pullhim help me when the crash and thud sounded fro

"Ellie?" Braden shouted out in question

Silence

"Ellie!"

When she didn’t call back, my eyes widened on his and I juo to run through the apartment

"Ellie!" I heard hi up speed

The sight that greetedas Braden kneeled on the floor, his hands hovering over Ellie whose body twitched in convulsions, her eyes fluttering rapidly, her mouth slack "Ellie?" Braden’s pale face snapped up tosome kind of seizure"

I rushed out of the roo rabbed for the phone on , I cursed, utter fear choking me as I hurried back into the hall as the operator picked up "Eency, what service do you require? Fire, police or ambulance?"

"She just passed out" Braden sat next to her helpless as her body went limp "I don’t knohat do? Fuck, I don’t knohat to do"

"Ao on hold and then two seconds later the ambulance control room picked up "My roo because Braden of all people was panicking "We heard a crash and we rushed into the kitchen and she was convulsing and now she’s unconscious"

"What telephone nu from?"

I rhymed it off iet angry at the robo-speak of the woman on the end of the line, I rhymed the address off too

"Is this your rooe is your roo?"

"She’s breathing, Braden, right?"

He nodded, his jaw clenched as he watched me

"Okay, can you move your roommate into the recovery position as a precaution?"

"Recovery position," I repeated to Braden and watched as he iently

"The ambulance is on its way Please keep any pets out of the way of the ambulance crehen they arrive"

"We don’t have pets"

"Okay Please stay on the line until the a "What’s going on?"

He shook his head as he brushed Ellie’s hair off her face "I don’t know"

A noise drew us up tense

A noise fro to roan escaped Ellie’s mouth as her head turned slowly "Wha…" her eyes flickered open, dazed And then they widened as she saw us hovering over her "What happened?"

Despite regaining consciousness, the paramedics took Ellie away in the ambulance and Braden and I jumped into a cab to follow theh Braden called Elodie and Clark, and he called Ada around and no one really telling us anything, and when Elodie, Clark and Adam arrived there was still no word