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Yeah, there was one--we didn’t go back But was it really an option? Daen "Can we do this later? We’re going to be late"

"Sure" He sidestepped Dae on Dae the hint, Blake skedaddled out of there I had no idea what to say to any of this "Expose ourselves to onyx?"

Daemon huffed "He’s insane"

He was "Do you think it would work?"

"You’re not…?"

"I don’t know" I switched my backpack to the other shoulder and we started toward the school "I really don’t know We can’t give up, but what other options do we have?"

"We don’t even know if it ork"

"But if Blake really is sort of immune to it, then we can test it out on hirin spread across his face "I like the sound of that"

I laughed "Why doesn’t that surprise me? But seriously, if he has a tolerance to it, then shouldn’t we be able to? It’s soet some" Daemon was quiet for a few seconds "What?" I asked

He squinted "I think I have the onyx part covered"

"What do youbell

"After Will got you and a couple of days after Dawson came back, I returned to the warehouse and stripped most of the onyx froround "What?"

"Yeah, I don’t knohy I did it Kind of like ine their faces when they went back and saas all gone"

I was speechless

He tweaked my nose I sht!"

"But I didn’t"

I sain, this time harder "You’re crazy"

"But you lovethe corner ofwe need is detention"

I snorted "Yeah, like that would be the biggest of our problems"

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Carissa still hadn’t returned to school on Monday The fluher butt Lesa see "I’ht," she said before trig started "Why can’t I coled and we ot about everything It was nice and h ere in school Theblew by and when Blake entered bio, I refused to let him ruin"what the hell" statement came out "You didn’t tell Dae you?"

Ah, what the frig, hed

I frowned "I’ serious"

"Oh" His s that scenario out in his head: oing ape poo poo over it He caood call

"Anyway," he continued "About what I said this --"

"Not now" I opened ht now"

I smiled when Lesa sat down and luckily, Blake respected my request He chatted it up with Lesa like a nor

A knot for Lesa about different kinds of surfing techniques I was pretty sure she wasn’t even listening, considering her gaze was trained on how his shirt strained over his biceps

He laughed easily, blending in perfectly Like a good implant would, and I knew fro it There really was no way of telling what side Blake was truly on, and it was stupid to even guess

At the front of the class, Matthew pulled out his roll book His eyes met mine briefly and then shifted to the boy beside me I wondered how Matthew did it--kept calether

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I stopped at rabbed my US history text at the end of the day The chances of a pop quiz toh Mrs Kerns had a schedule, which really didn’tsurprise I closedThe croas thinning out as everyone rushed to get out of the school I wasn’t sure if I wanted to rush or not Blake had already texted ether to talk about the onyx situation, and I really didn’t want to