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She shoved through the bathroom door, slammed into a stall, and knelt down in front of the toilet Her stoe to take care of it Cal dizzily at her reflection in the toilet’s water You can get through this

Hanna stood up again, her jaw tre to spill from her eyes If only she could stay in this bathrooht Let them have Hanna’s special weekend without her Her cell phone rang Hanna pulled it out of her purse to silence it Then her stoarbled address

Since you followed ift: Get to Foxy, now Sean’s there with another girl --A

She was so startled, she nearly dropped the phone on the bathroom’s marble floor

She dialed Mona They still weren’t speaking--Hanna hadn’t even told Mona she wasn’t going to Foxy--and Mona didn’t answer Hanna hung up, so frustrated she threw her phone against the door Who could Sean be with? Naomi? Some V Club bitch?

She burst noisily out of the stall,her hands at the sink jump When Hanna came around the corner for the door, she skidded to a halt Kate was sitting on the chaise lounge, applying pale, sals were crossed and she looked super-poised

"Everything okay?" Kate raised her deep blue eyes to Hanna "I came to check"

Hanna stiffened "Yeah I’m fine"

Kate twisted up her mouth "No offense to your dad, but sos Like this one ti the house, and your dad goes, ‘Kate? I see you wrote OB on the grocery list What is that? What aisle can I find it in?’ I was e of syht

"Hey, it doesn’t "

Hanna shook her head "It’s not that" She glanced up at Kate Oh, what the hell Maybe they did have a pretty-girl bond "It’s…it’scalled Foxy with another girl"

Kate frowned "When did you break up?"

"Eight days ago" Hanna sat down on the chaise "I’ht now and kick his ass"

"Why don’t you?"

Hanna slumped back in the couch "I wish, but…" Sheback to the restaurant

"Listen" Kate stood up and puckered for theyou’re in? Say that one of the people in it called you and said she was feeling really ‘weak,’ and you’re her buddy, so you have to talk her down"

Hanna raised an eyebrow "You know an awful lot about support groups"

Kate shrugged "I have a couple friends who’ve been through rehab"

Okaaay "I don’t think it’s a good idea"

"I’ll cover for you, if you want," Kate offered

Hanna eyed her in the fully "Let’s just say I owe you one"

Hanna flinched So about that time in Annapolis It made her feel squirnized that she’d been ave her a certain satisfaction

"Besides," Kate said, "your dad said we’d be seeing a lot ht"

Hanna blinked "He said he…he wants to see hter"

Hanna played with the heart-shaped charave her a little thrill, hearing Kate say that Maybe she’d overreacted at the dinner table

"What--it’ll take you two hours, tops?" Kate asked

"Probably less than that" All she wanted to do was take SEPTA to Rosewood and curse the bitch out She opened her hobo bag to see if she had train fare Kate stood above her and pointed to so at the purse’s bottom "What’s that?"

"This?" As soon as Hanna pulled it out, she wanted to stuff it back in It was the Percocet she’d stolen frootten

"Can I have one of those?" Kate whispered excitedly Hanna looked at her cross-eyed "Serious?"