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A pause followed before Balthazar said, "I guess maybe he had his reasons"

"Or maybe he was too chicken to face the truth" Skye turned the volu was even louder For the rest of the ride, it was the only sound in the car besides the slap-slap of the windshield wipers pushing away the snow

Darby Glen High becahttia lots were filled with cars and a few people were alwaysaround Now the place was deserted, so eerily silent that she could hear the echo of their footsteps on the tile and Balthazar’s keys jangling in his pocket The flashlight Balthazar held provided their only illumination

They reached the door of Ms Loos’s room and stopped Neither ular and slow

"Is it getting to you already?" Balthazar stepped closer to her Once again she reer he was than her, with his dark outline looo back"

"No I don’t sense anything, I’m just--"

"I know" His hand hovered next to her shoulder for athem both the touch

After one more deep breath, Skye put her hand on the doorknob and turned

When she first walked in, the room looked like any other classroom Written on the dry-erase board in all caps were the words UTERINE CYCLE, which lad she’d dropped out of Ms Loos’s class when she did

"Anything?" Balthazar kept glancing around the roohost or vampire to appear at any second At least they would have kno to fight those

"It usually takes a few e of one of the desks--the one where Britnee Fong used to sit She hadn’t really thought about Britnee since her fight with Craig; she’d hardly had a chance Now, though, she realized that if Craig was telling the truth, Britnee wasn’t the sche wasn’t off the hook with Skye yet--not by a long shot--butet Madison to quit snarking on her so much