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Eate Horse Farm heel They weren’t in the middle of nowhere They were a mile from her house

"C’mon," Toby said "I’ll help you out"

Maybe she was overreacting There were a lot of people who’d really changed--take any of Emily’s old friends, for instance It didn’t rip on the seat cushion "Um, you can drive me If you want"

He stared at her for a minute One side of his mouth curled up into an alirl, but he didn’t say it

He got back in the driver’s seat, and Emily quietly inspected hi dark eyes now just looked deep and brooding And he actually spoke Coherently The surade, Emily and Toby went to the same swim camp, and Toby would stare at Emily unashamedly, then pull his cap over his eyes and hum Even then, Emily wished she could ask him the billion-dollar question: Why had he taken the bla his stepsister, when he hadn’t?

The night it happened, Ali ca was fine, that no one had seen her Everyone was too scared to sleep at first, but Ali scratched everyone’s backs, cal them down The next day, when Toby confessed, Aria asked Ali if she’d known he was going to do that all along--how else could she have been so chill? "I just had this vibe we’d be okay," Ali explained

Over time, Toby’s confession had just become one of those life mysteries they’d never understand--like why Brad and Jen really got divorced, as on the Rosewood Day girls’ bathrooen Srade (because it definitely wasn’t uilty about soet out of Rosewood? Or maybe he did have a firework in the tree house and shot it by mistake

Toby steered into E played on his stereo, and he druht of how he’d saved her from Ben yesterday She wanted to thank him, but what if he asked more about it? What would Eirl

Eht of a safe question "So, you’re at Tate now?"

"Yep," he answered "My parents said if I got in, I could go And I did It’s nice being close to hoet to see my sister--she’s at school in Philadelphia"

Jenna E her toes, tensed She tried not to show any reaction, and Toby stared straight ahead, seely unaware that she was nervous "And, u it sound like she didn’t know he’d been at the Manning Acadele research, was on Fryeburg Road in Portland

"Yup" Toby slowed down to let two little kids on Rollerblades cross the street "Maine was pretty cool The best thing about it was EMS"

"Did you…did you see anyone die?"

Toby ain Emily had never noticed they were actually dark blue "Nope But this old lady willed ?" Eh

"Yep I ith her in the a, and I said I loved dogs When she died, her lawyer found ?"

"She’s at my house now She’s really sweet, but about as old as the lady was"

Ean to thaw Toby see else, they were at her house

Toby parked the car and pulled Emily’s bike out of the trunk As she took the handlebars froh her Toby looked at Emily for a o, she’d pressed her hand into the freshly poured concrete Now, the handprint looked way too small ever to have been hers

Toby climbed into the driver’s seat "So I’ll see you tomorrow?"

Enition "It’s the Rosewood-Tate meet Remember?"

"Oh," Emily answered "Of course"

As Toby pulled away, she felt her heart slon For soht Toby wanted to ask her out on a date But c’mon, she told herself as she walked up the front steps to her house This was Toby The two of the alive And for the first ti for that

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NEXT TIME, STASH EMERGENCY COVER-UP IN YOUR PURSE

"¿Cuándo es?" a voice said in her ear "What time is it? Time for Spencer to die!"