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"What we need is a goodhow horrible I sounded "Or a kidnapping So fun, you know, to keep our minds off all this"

"All this? Do you"

"That’s not a distraction That’s a reason to throw "

"You’re a sixteen-year-old boy," she said "I think we’ll probably need a serial killer"

Leander Holmes would turn up the next day Three days later, he would disappear And for weeks and weeks after, I’d wonder if, by wishing, we’d brought everything that happened after that onto ourselves

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I WOKE TO CHARLOTTE BESIDE ME AND SOMEONE ELSE flinging back the curtains

Even with the sudden brightness, even knowing there was a stranger in otten less than five minutes of sleep--maybe five minutes in the last fivethe line

"Go away," I mumbled, and rolled over

The laave you that T-shirt, I didn’t intend for you to interpret it literally"

At that, I cracked an eye open, but thewas too backlit to see

"I don’t think you intended forbeside me, but she sounded pleased Somehow, she didn’t look tired at all; on the contrary, she was sitting up, her knees tucked under her shirt, stretching out the words CHEMISTRY IS FOR LOVERS "It really is the worst Christ"

"Worse than the tiure tutted "I really oose Introducehe’s invisible, in which case I’ll play along"

Holmes paused "No lecture?"

Leander--because it had to be Leander--laughed "You’ve done worse things, and anyway, it’s fairly clear you aren’t actually having sex This may be indelicate, but those sheets aren’t hardly wrinkled enough So I’ you on"

That was it I was going to pass a law against peopleat my eyes, Leander crossed to the other side of the bed I finally got a good look at him We’d ht me a pet rabbit All I remembered was a tall hing with le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>