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I sed a laugh I luv U!

Her: Love you, too! Now get back to work

I stuffedthe way I ran into Mackenzie I was as happy to see her now as I’d been at the club but still grabbed her by the arers, curled her red lips in distaste and jerked away But she didn’t walk off, as per usual, and I was grateful

"What do you want?" she snapped

Such a sweet, sweet girl "Where’s Cole?"

"What aritted

"He’s gone"

"What do you ain?

"Is therefor the word?"

Don’t punch her You can’t afford a suspension "What’s the deal with Veronica? She and Cole are on such great ter they’ve known each other" I should be discussing this with Cole, and only with Cole, but curiosity--and ed me onward

"Cole dated her before me I’ve heard rumors, but I’m not one hundred percent sure why they broke up He never said"

Keep it together So she wasn’t telling me "When he broke up with you, how did he do it?"

She stared atunder a microscope--already dissected, ready to be sold for parts Finally she averted her gaze, but not before I caught a glimmer of pity "It was a feeeks after Bronx and I uesthouse, and a few ot me alone, sat me down and told me ere over I was absolutely blindsided Even the day before, ere pretty into each other Or so I thought"

Blindsided

Into each other one day, but not the next

Keep It Together

Kat sidled up beside , "There you are"

She would help me, despite her problems

"Well, well Hello, Ally Kat" Mackenzie smiled with saccharine sweetness

The two had never been friends, and probably never would be Mackenzie, so protective of "her" boys, had tried to ruin Kat’s relationship with Frosty a ti the sa her back to Mackenzie, as if the girl were of no consequence Her cheeks were colorless, and her lips chapped fro lunch and ht’s ga why you can’t go, but I’ll save you the tioing and that’s final"

I opened my mouth, but she kissed le word "What if I have to, I don’t know, help Cole?" I called A few slayers had to patrol the streets nearly every night, just in case

She never turned back

"You don’t You haven’t been put on rotation," Mackenzie said, and bounded off in the other direction

Cole still hadn’t added , I entered the lunchroom and headed toward the table I shared with Reeve and the slayers Halfway there, I slammed into a brick wall Or rather, a brick wall that went by the na brown puppy-dog eyes peered down at ht where I want to be"

"That’s odd, considering your location et your testicles knocked into your throat" I wasn’t falling for his innocent act Not again He’d once used ht even have helped the what he’d do next

"Give s, Ali Please I had nothing to do with--"

"Save it" I took a step to the side, intending to brush past hiht occurred to me "First, answer a question for ht?"

An e lately "No Why?"

If he was to be believed, I’d dreamed their conversation My mind really was a mess

"Watch me as I don’t discuss that with you" I marched to the table and sat with more of a slam than I’d intended

"What did Justin want?" Frosty asked, looking ready to commit murder on ue over his teeth It was his way of telling e on the boy With his spiked hair now dyed an electric blue rather than green, and the piercings in his eyebrow and lip--and, okay, the tattoo peeking from under the collar of his shirt--he didn’t have to say anything to scare the crap out of most people