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Okay, so rin, Talley noticed ht?" Talley asked, sitting a bowl of popcorn on , whichour traditional school dance night sleep-over Usually Joi joined us, but she had a date, with John Davis of all people We were enjoying a night of junk food and geeky movies

"Who asked hat?" At this point in the movie there were only a couple of hobbits and souy that was supposed to be, but in irls to ask anyone anything

"Ashley asked Alex to Ho about hi that topic for weeks now "I heard Tinsley Henson telling Molly Eastwick that she had to practically beg him to take her"

Talley looked at ure out where this conversation was heading "Well, you know our Ashley She will do whatever it takes to get what she wants

Re but liet her a puppy?" I took a thoughtful bite of Funyun "That never did "

"Wow You would really rather res for Alex? You are seriously repressed"

I squirs for Alex, other than annoyance"

"Of course you donʼt Iʼ at him when you think no one will notice And Iʼm sure there is so on your bottoets within ten feet of you" I ran ue over the inside ofmost of its skin

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I flopped back onto my bed and threw Guido across my face Loyal sock monkey, always there to hide ent, and slightly charismatic If Jase didnʼt happen to be the President and Founder of the I Hate Alex Cole Club, and his brother wasnʼt a raging psycho, I ht be half te over the fact that she was right, Talley sat strangely silent for a long while Then, in a voice that ay too serious for ht fate for so long"

I was about to ask her what that was supposed to mean, but at that mo Talleyʼs thoughts for the rest of the night

As for the interaction between Alex and Jase during those months, it was virtually nonexistent After that first day, Alex no longer spent his lunch in the cafeteria I had a feeling it didnʼt have asJase