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HIJINKS AND HIGH SCHOOLS

I woke up early the nextwith exciteh school I took a quick shower and got ready It was nice to be able to do s feel a little more normal I chose a shirt Lend had picked out for o forty-​five minutes before we needed to leave Lend hadn’t even woken up yet With nothing else to do, I went downstairs to eat breakfast

David was sitting at the table with Arianna and the tolves "Oh, hey," I said, feeling like I had intruded David save me a nod Stacey and Luke barely looked at me I think I scared them Awesome

"Cereal’s in the pantry--help yourself," David said I did, finding a bowl and spoon and then sitting at the counter to eat I tried not to listen to their conversation, but it was a s theroup "Are you talking about the girl that’s killing paranormals? I saw her"

"You did? How does she do it?" They all looked at er and intense

"It’s weird She just sort of puts her hand on their chests and then they’re dead Afterward, there’s a handprint, all shiolden, but it fades I don’t think anyone else would be able to see it"

"Can you show me exactly what she did?" David stood up "Are you sure she didn’t have a weapon of so"

Arianna stepped up "Show him on me"

It was er to put my hand on Arianna’s chest--I wouldn’t have been even if she weren’t undead Not ed "Okay, she walked up and put her hand out like this, and then--"

The second we touched, Arianna’s eyes ide and she started convulsing, letting out a horrible shriek

David ju my hand away in terror What had I done? I really was like Vivian, a olden handprint to show up and Arianna to cruround And a part of me, a small, terrible part, waited to knohat it would feel like

Her convulsions shifted into giggles "Oh, I got you bad!" She was laughing so hard now she doubled over

I leaned against the counter and gasped for breath Trying not to cry, I shoved her shoulder, al her over "You stupid brat! I can’t believe you did that!"

David sighed "That was in very poor taste"

At the table, Stacey had her head buried in Luke’s chest She was bawling, and Luke looked like he wanted to rip Arianna’s throat out

"Oh, lighten up," she said, still laughing "That esome and you know it You should have seen the look on your face You really thought you were killing lared at her I couldn’t get that duht of Fire Girl as Vivian again

"Hey, goodas he took in everyone’s faces "What did I enius," Iback down to finishkills, and Arianna decided to make it a little reat," Arianna said, finally getting her laughter under control

"Were you talking about the poeured out?"

David shook his head "No, you’re officially banned fro about thinking about this, understand?"

"But I--"

"No I mean it You and Evie both This is not your probleot some cereal and sat next tothat it was a relief to turn it over to the adults I didn’t want to think about faeries or crazy burning girls any David’s rules It was about tie of Lish’s lifeless body out of ht I’d done my part already

"Are you ready?" Lend asked

"Oh yeah" I was so ready Distractions, please "Are there are a lot of paranormals at the school, too? Vamps?"