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Quickly she snatched her phone again and texted, There’s NO WAY this is really Jereht," Mateo said as he and Nadia headed toward chemistry class "I knohat I saw, Nadia It wasn’t a drea ever Jereht toward us," Nadia said
Mateo glanced up to see she was right; Jeremy seemed totally unbothered as he sauntered toward class, just like always, except for the disappearance of his usual s expression
Still, when Mateo looked at him, all he could envision was the way Jeremy had fallen into the wet sand, utterly lifeless As he passed theuy but Jeremy, who seemed to come up with snide comments for every occasion
Mateo pulled Nadia close; it wasn’t like Jereht here, but he felt better trying to keep her safe It had only been a few nights ago that she’d been lying unconscious at his feet He’d thought she was dead He’d been given a glimpse of his world without Nadia, and he didn’t ever want to see it again
"Raising the dead," he said "Can witchcraft do that?"
"No At least not any way you’d ever want the over the alternatives, and all the ones I know areextrehtened around Mateo "And it just got worse"
Mateo glanced over his shoulder and saw Elizabeth walking into class
Nobody else looked remotely surprised to see her; ould they? She attended school as though she were any other student Granted, she was out a lot of the time, because she could et her absences completely--but that only made it weirder that she chose to come at all
And of course, Elizabeth was still his lab partner
"Ah, young love," said Mrs Purdhy, who had walked up while they were distracted Mateo and Nadia pulled apart slightly "What a beautiful sight Also, what a stupid reason for a tardy You tant to get into class?"
"Oh, yeah, right" Nadia shared a glance with Mateo They were stuck
As they walked in, Jere the stuff for today’s experiment neatly on the lab table he shared with Nadia (Oh, crap, how did I forget that he’s teamed with Nadia?) Elizabeth went cal at hilance at Jereh his iggling Swi-hot suo, on a cool, bright autumn day much like this one