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And I didn’t

Yeah, I sure showed theue and clenched my jaw shut in preparation for the heave of nausea that I kneould hitandup all over the tile

"You okay?" Nick asked, except I could tell he didn’t really wantto hide his smirk, and it was obvious he wanted me to lose it because then he’d be able to feel even hed when I lost it in Biology

Jerk I took a cautious breath, surprised and relieved to discover thatto behave, at least for the moment I slowly unclenched my jaw and returned his smirk with one of my own "I’m fine," I replied as I stepped in and allowed the door to close behind me

Disappointthened ue was uely creepy, like I’d seen in the movies The walls and floor were off-white, but in a shade that inal color or if they’d soross smells--kinda like the way the nicotine-yelloalls in e

The tour continued as Nick showedbodies in and out and took me into the cooler where the bodies were stored I’d expected a wall full of little doors with the slide-out tables that held the bodies, but instead it was siiant walk-in cooler--like you’d find in a restaurant or liquor store--with so shelves on the wall and about half a dozen stretchers lined up beside them The shelves were es on them

Dead people I backed out of the roo like a total weenie I eating fro foron Any second noas going to heave and puke all over the floor--or perhaps all over Nick That would be fine with me

The next room he took me to held hundreds of plastic containers full of tissue sa in a sickly, brown soup--formalin, as he informed me rather pompously But still not a whisper of nausea I could hardly believe it I even got queasy if I saw soe a diaper

Finally, Nick brought me into the roo roo in there Metal tables Drains in the floor Lots of really scary tools and equipist of it I didn’t need to see it up close and personal

Nick started pointing things out in the cutting roo on about the duties and the responsibilities and the procedures, with this cocky air about him as if he was the damn coroner I’d almost tuned hi the pathologist during autopsies, you’ll need to--"

"Whoa!" I jerked my hand up to stop hih ht lit his face "Yes, you’ll be helping with the autopsies You didn’t know that?"

I couldn’t speak for several seconds There was no way I’d be able to do this I couldn’t even handle the thought of a frog getting cut How the hell was I supposed to be all right when it was people? What kind of vicious joke was it to putwhopping practical joke Take the loser girl with the weak stouaranteed to make an ass of herself And threaten her with jail and death to o through all that trouble just to play a trick on ed to say I wouldn’t be, but I wasn’t going to let hiht now I didn’t have a whole lot of self-respect going for ood a ti to go to jail just because Nick was a prick

"Good to know," he said, srin "Because we have one scheduled to begin in about twenty et you suited up so you can start learning the ropes!"

Chapter 3

Three hours ago I was in bed, I thought miserably I should have stayed there

I was decked out in a blue plastic sloves that s overon the edat all A dead ht there for everyone to see