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"The point is, wepeople back in the door After all this craziness? Tonight, they’re going to panic To to want to drink; trust aritas, but then they order dinner"

Mateo couldn’t see it Virtually everyone in Captive’s Sound now had a friend or fao out for aritas and nachos Still, if Dad wanted to buy the retail-price cases of tequila at the place one county over, in the end, it was his call to ue withcar’s headlights briefly illu Mateo intently, so much so that Mateo wished he could squir, right?"

He didn’t want to talk this over with his dad Not even a little bit But he had to talk about it with soot lost in the ets past hable, considering that Mateo was now Steadfast to a witch, and one of his "oldest friends" had been outed as a Sorceress, and Dad had entle as he continued, "Anybody can sleepwalk Lots of folks do it Doesn’tto put on another set of locks, because I don’t want you tripping on the steps Are people giving you a hard tihtly harder than usual"

"Listen tothey say about that curse Pure Crap I watched your h this All those years she had to take it alone--alone except for your grandmother, which if you ask ot et along with their parents; sorateful to be the exception to the rule "Okay Good to know"

"And not just irl, the one with the weird hair--"

"Verlaine"

"Soirl, huh?"

Mateo remembered how Nadia’s dark hair felt in his hands, the way she sh the cold waves to save hi--the ht "Yeah I’ve got Nadia"

"Then hang in there"

Just when Mateo thought hehis father a littleon the road--on both sides of the road "Hey That guy, is he passing or what?"

"Watch it You get crazy people on the highway these days"