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"No"

His laugh echoed off the surrounding trees "Will you promise to try not to freak out on me?"

"I will put forth a valiant effort," I conceded

"I was going to sneak into your room and leave it" His words came out so rapidly it took ato break into my house?"

"You live ten h the unlocked front door That hardly constitutes breaking in"

Illogically, the thing bothering me most was that my roo out in plain view

"Itʼs a good thing that plan didnʼt work out," I said "Jaseʼs room is next to mine You wouldʼve totally been busted"

"Actually, I was co to talk to Jase, to let hi to say I ended up in your rooht he was very sly I, for one, felt certain that Jase would have easily seen through such a weak lie, but I allowed hi on here," I noticed "Hoas I supposed to knoas froh all the tape, but eventually I was looking at an old, yellowed paperback The cover had a beast that looked like the illegitimate love child of Chewbacca and Lassie and read, "Werewolf Autopsy by PJ S to sate e McPhearson, a olf, turned hie University After two years of observations and experis, and was subsequently laughed at by every acadelobe Maybe it wouldʼve been different if he could have offered proof, but George conveniently disappeared right before the study went public Eventually Ss published as fiction with only one li the only copy of the only book that tells the truth about olves"

"Where did you find it?" If it was as rare as he said it hich I fully believed, he ot really lucky on eBay

"It was " In the back of s - her favorite albums and books, so dress None of the ite much at an auction, but theyʼre my most prized possessions I couldnʼt bear to part with any of thees with care, as if it was an invaluable holy docu on words like eneration, skeletal fusion, and passionate embrace

Passionate embrace?

"This is all real?" I asked as I quickly read a paragraph detailing the trials and tribulations of kissing with fangs