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Instead he put his hand up to his cheek
"M but a little thing, aren’t you?" He put his finger under her chin and net for jerks, I think
"For you, little girl, I’onna save Brayden! Doolies!" Payton shouted "We have to save this boy"
"Sir, yes, sir!" the cadets shouted
"We’re gonna take hirabbed et out You all get out We’re going to take Brayden to Denver now"
"What?" The little kids were crying
"GET OUT!" Payton shouted He pushed Sahalia toward the door "Even you, o, too, so Daddy Payton can get the job done"
It happened so fast He was kicking us out of the bus and we didn’t have a et Brayden to Denver and we can’t achieve ourus down!"
I didn’t even haveall the backpacks he could find Ulysses started grabbing stuff, too
Payton reached over and snatched the backpacks away from Max
Max let out a cry and the leader picked him up and threw him down the aisle, toward the door
"This stuff is ours now! You get et off if you don’t want to be ours, too!"
A short, greasy-looking cadet grabbed the water bottles away fro to get back to Brayden now and one of the cadets was holding her back He sort of wrestled her out the door and down the steps
"Brayden! Brayden!" she sobbed
Niko was still in the driver’s seat It seeo or what to do
"Hey, driver boy," Payton called to Niko, nudging Josie’s hip with his boot "You’d better coet this comatose kid if you want him!"
I wonder whether Payton would have let Niko take Josie if he’d known she was a girl But with all the layers, who could tell?
Niko got up and went down the aisle toward Josie
Payton leaned down and sniffed Brayden "Ooof, ht away to get him to a hospital!"
Niko picked up Josie and half carried, half dragged her off the bus
I noticed he had his backpack on
I noticed it because I was right behind hi froh
"I love you, Brayden," they et this jack-up to Denver!" Payton yelled
A cadet dragged a crushed motorcycle out fro "To Denver!" But the way they said it, oing to Denver
"You can’t just take our bus!" Batiste shrieked at two of the cadets
"Oh yeah?" said a really tall, gangly cadet He pointed his gun at Batiste "Just watch"
Now they were all on board and ere all off, besides Brayden
The girl in the white coat slipped around the corner of the bus She looked like she was afraid She stepped up onto the first step of the bus
"Hey!" I called to her She looked atblue eyes open round and wide
"You don’t have to go with theht
She took a long look and then she stuck her er up at me
CHAPTER SEVEN
DEAN
DAY 13
I slept hard and, hallelujah, I slept until I woke up of ot to sleep in
What woke rowl ofRooo walls while Astrid read on the couch Breakfast had been eaten (cereal with soy milk, by the looks of it) Caroline was still in her pj’s but looked better Luna was even up and about
Seeing ive ," Astrid said "I made you coffee"
"Dean, ill they be here?" Chloe co, already All we do is wait and wait and wait--"
She was interrupted by a BANG
I turned to Astrid
"What on earth?" she said blankly
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