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"Another ju at ood reason to suspect," I say "Iachis about her, what her bedroom looked like, that she had a mole on her boob"

"Because he spied on her when she was sleeping," Dee says "There was an explanation"

"I know I know Just like you say thereBut you know, sometimes you do have accept the evidence at face value In one day, I saw Willeet a telephone nu ot played"

"For a player, boy talked a lot about falling in love"

"Falling in love, not being in love," I say "And with Céline" Though when he spoke of his parents, of being stained, I recall the look on his face, one of un And then I feel the heat on my wrist, as if his saliva were still wet there

"Céline," Dee says, snapping his fingers "The hottie French girl"

"She wasn’t that hot"

Dee rolls his eyes "Why didn’t we think of this? What’s the na?"

"I have no idea"

"Okay Where was it?"

"Near the train station"

"Which train station?"

I shrug I’ve sort of blocked it all out

Dee grabsornery" He taps away "If you came from London, you arrived at Gare du Nord" He pronounces it Gary du Nord

"Aren’t you clever?"

He pulls up Google Maps and then types sos appear "There"

"What?"

"Those are the nightclubs near Gare du Nord You call them Presumably Céline works in one of them Find her, find him"

"Yeah, maybe in the same bed"

"Allyson, you just said you had to have your eyes wide open"

"I do I just don’t ever want to see Céline again"

"How bad do you want to find hiuess, , I want to find out what happened"

"All the more reason to call this Céline person"

"So I’et, I don’t speak French"

"How hard can it be?" He stops and arranges his face into a puckered expression "Bon lacroix " He smirks "See? Easy peasy lemon squeezy"

"Is that French too?"

"No, that’s Latin And you can ask for the other guy too, the African"

The Giant Hi to, but of course, I don’t even know his name

"You do it You’re better at all that than me"

"What you on about? I studied Spanish"

"I just "

"I’ve seen you do Rosalind And you spent a day playing Lulu, and you’re currentlyas a pre-med student to your parents"

I look down, pick at my nail "That just makes me a liar"