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"Oohhh- can I borrow too?" Jess asked as she eloss And sos at her house Macy"

I rolleddark hair I couldn’t help it She had been rushing eous hair," Jade re I’ve never seen eyes that color of green Are they real or contacts?"

I s, vivid green- so bright that they do seelow But I’ve had the same eyes in every life; it is one physical trait that has been constant That and my dark hair

I nodded "They’re real"

Jess elbowedto kill us if we leave her up there by herself"

I handed Jade back her et bored and want to hang out soive ive youit to um wrapper I scrawled my number on it and handed it back

"It was nice to meet you Welcome to San Marino"

"Thanks I’ll call you soon- it would be nice to hang out"

I nodded and let Jess pull ue fah, and that was nice

This cycle was different than any of my others, because my memories had already been unlocked Norirl until it is tiis (ives me my bloodstone, a powerful stone created just for me The second I touch it, ins

But this tih priest had tried to coercethe past, an My Aegis, Ahypt in order to, well, save the world

It had been gut-wrenching Being back in Alexandria had been ah I had never left, which was a little odd But Gavin was there, in the form of Hasani, the commander of Marc Antony’s ar and brave with a warrior’s heart

In every life, he is withto die and hohich ether wretchedly painful I had ultied to allow Fate to unfold as it was meant to, which meant that I had allowed a RohEver In the history of the world

And here we go again My Daedal had found her way into my life Which ain I never had any real blueprint for the choices that she was supposed to uided ht decisions Plus, of course, the bird-shaped birth so, sort of like a bad-decision coyet rid of hts There was no reason to stress about it now One thing that I had learned after all of these years, was that no good ca What was meant to happen would happen What I should do now instead of stressing, was spend everyfora kiss against his soft lips He smiled and I felt my knees literally weaken He winked as I jue, and I felt ht everything was fine Normal And normal it was notthe absolute story of s of people on the dance floor cheered, so I focusedThe heat frohts shone on my bare shoulders and I soaked it in nohile it still felt good In about fifteenmyself to beco inlare and Gavin’s soft gaze And so the crowd, I searched for whatever it was that was

Teachers lined the walls, dutifully supervising the hyped-up student body Bodies writhed and undulated on the dance floor, stirring the subtle shts flashed and shadoere cast against the walls There was nothing out of place, nothing out of the ordinary Everything seemed fine, but it wasn’t I could feel it

Jess worked her way next to ed me with her eyebrows raised and I realized that I had ain and I lifted theinto it absently as I continued to exayently in time with the music It was painfully obvious that she didn’t know anyone yet, since she was all alone surrounded by a crowd I hoped she called me soon She was bound to be lonely without anyone to talk to She had always been a social butterfly

Just as I was about to shiftabout the way her eyes were fixated on the curtains lining the wall gaveto see what she was staring at through the flashing lights There was nothing there but suddenly, as she gazed at the where she was standing andwall like a tidal wave It took asped but before I could react, a piercing pain ripped throughfro pain into hout the rest of my body The pain was so intense that I couldn’t breathe I dropped toacross the stage I vaguely recognized the shrill ainst a speaker People covered their ears in the crowd as Jess ran to me and dropped to her knees beside ?"

I struggled to breathe, trying to force air in past the pain I couldn’t speak All I could do was shake my head and wrapfor air It was like a hundred knives were stabbing

"Macy, what is it? Do you need an ambulance?" Her eyes were flooded with panic as she was shoved out of the way by her sister Jenn peered into ht?" Jenn turned to the audience and screamed,

"Soe and sprinted to where I was lying He dropped to the floor and picked up my hand as he loomed over me