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Nan rolled her eyes and held up two fingers "Boy Scouts honor"

"You’re a girl"

"Fine then, Girl Scouts honor" Nan held up three fingers

"Don’t think it counts if you’ve never actually been a girl scout" Mina countered,sure there were no loop holes in her friend’s credibility

Mina looked over Nan’s shoulder toward her brother and mother’s room and decided that they needed to find aNan’s shoulder, she motioned down the hall and into her room When the door was securely shut, Nan jumped across Mina’s hastily made bed Mina perched on the end more daintily

"Nan, I’m cursed"

"Yeah, I know We all are" Nan kicked her legs back and forth and grabbed a er You, e"

"No,you is, I am personally cursed, or fated, to follow the same path as Griotten it in the open She had been thinking for the last few days on how to break the news to her best friend

Nan just stared at Mina, blinking her eyes in thought "Yeah, right I’o to Yale and become a lawyer like my father and his father before hi down that path? No way Jose I’ to Julliard instead" Nan flipped a couple es and then oohed over a cute skirt

Mina snatched the rab it back "I’m serious, Nan I’m in over ave Mina her full attention "You’re really serious?"

Mina ran her hands over her head, "Dead serious"

"Like, this isn’t soht?"

"No I wish it were, I really do, but it’s not"

"Okay, I’s Indian style and waited patiently through Mina’s whole tale She barely fidgeted, never once interrupted and even didn’t irab her phone to tweet the update "Whoa," was all she said when Mina was done

"You can say that again," Mina mumbled unhappily

"Whoa," Nan repeated, and ducked as Mina threw a pillow at her "So you were actually attacked outside the library? That must have been awesome"

"Nan!" Mina chided "NO! I could have been killed"

"But you weren’t; Brody saved you So if Brody saved your life and all, then why is he in such a fit?"

"I’ to do with it He wanted o to the police, but if I did, and my mother found out, that would be the end of us She would have shipped us out to Canada, before you can say … Canucks"

"So you two fought," Nan stated

"Yes, we argued, and I dee bruise on the side of o to school" Mina paced her s her bedroom mirror to look at the bruise

"So in other words, he hasn’t called you, spoken to you, or seen you since the attack" Nan ticked off the words on her hands "That definitely explains why he has been out of sorts MINA, CALL HIM! Let him know that you are still alive"