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HEARTS AGLOW
What do you think heToday he surprised ued blond boy ItStill, I could see him underneath, so it didn’t really matter what he put on the outside
"I don’t know--he’s Reth What does he everhi to finish uy, he’s probably got resources we don’t What were his exact words about the poe wasn’t ood, at least, right? I’death, death, death, death, death’ and so on and so forth"
Lend laughed "Yeah, probably not Death in sparkly platfore, at least"
I sht I was going to kill you, remember?"
"Oh, I reme I wonder if things have always been this weird and I just never knew, or if they’re getting worse"
"They’re getting worse"
"Okay, so poetic prophecies and creepy faerie stalkers aside, I’ve got an important question"
"What?"
"Do you have a driver’s license?"
He laughed "That’s important?"
"Oh yeah! I’d kill for a driver’s license! Hey, o berserk and start attacking people because they won’t let me drive"
"Could be, you never know But, yes, I have a driver’s license"
I leaned back against the wall, sighing "Man, that ht up there with lockers In fact, sometimes I put my license insideht explode with the sheer coolness of it all"
I s that a lot "Shut up You try living your whole life here and then tell aveme closely this whole time
"You really don’t care about this face, do you?"
"What face?" I asked, confused
He s off braces I hadn’t noticed "This one"
I laughed "Why would I care? You wear a lot of different things"
"Yeah, but this one isn’t very cute"
"Not really, but it’s not you" He got that funny look again I ss me is that your voice is always different I wish I knehat it really sounded like Oh, and also I think it’s a little creepy when you’re a girl, but you haven’t done that in a while"
He shook his head "You’re weird"
"Says the invisible shape-shifting boy"
He laughed a little, then leaned back against the wall likethis out"
"I know Sorry" I had racked ether all Reth’s random tidbits and the stupid poem hat I had seen And evento my poem was, if there even was one Have I mentioned how much I don’t like faeries?
"Evie?" His voice was tentative "Is there any way you could eet this inforroup could help"
My heart fell Was Lend just using -not-to-be-self-centered thing So what if he was? He should be IPCA wasn’t solving this, and they were stopping hi Still, I hoped he likedto ot a co I do online is shop and I know IPCAI click on because they cancel about ninety percent of my purchases I could try to set up a new e, but I’m pretty sure they’d catch it ih" I bit ht it?"
I s nonchalance "Umm, I’d be imprisoned indefinitely for treason Probably But you never know--they really like what I can do And I think Raquel would stick up for et out of it" I’d never been sent to a disciplinary hearing; the idea terrified me
Lend shook his head "No, I’m sorry It’s not worth the risk"
"It really is, if you think any of the inforure it out and stop this thing" Gosh, was I being brave or what?
"It won’t do any good to get us both locked up I’ve got another goal besides finding and stopping the killer"
I frowned Asme to help him take down IPCA I’d have to say no It wasn’t a perfect organization by any ht the world was a s and all the rest of the nasty creepy-crawly blood-sucky flesh-eating things of legend "What’s your other goal?"
"I want to get you out of here"
"Don’t you et you out of here?"
He tookthis A lot "No, I et you out This shouldn’t be your life You deserve a lot more Like a locker"
"And a driver’s license?"
"Let’s not get carried away"
I set out and live a real life (whatever that was; I didn’t pretend like I knew anymore), I didn’t think it would ever happen If I was classified as a paranormal, IPCA had complete jurisdiction over me Which meant I couldn’t exactly turn in my teeks’ notice
My communicator beeped I pulled it out with o of Lend’s till he let go ofever Warm, but perfectly saveparanorlanced at the screen It was Lish "What’s up?"
"Co back and the Supervisors are following You should not be caught alone with Lend"
"I’ht now Thanks, Lish" I hooked the communicator back on my belt Lish always looked out for , but Raquel and a bunch of bigwigs are headed to the Center, so I probably shouldn’t be here"
He gave my hand a quick squeeze (which made my heart do all sorts of happy dances in o "I’ll see you later, then"
I hurried to Central Processing Lish looked downright panicked "What’s going on?" I could tell by her expression that so was up, and it scaredand Placeland was hit today"
"Wait, hit? What do you mean hit?"