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"Nice flowers," he said, casually glancing where my hand rested on the table I wondered if he noticed how I kept inching it towards his

"They are pretty, arenʼt they? I didnʼt know roses came in quite so ht?

Alex met Charlieʼs eyes with a look of wry a choice"

"Iʼve never seen one like it before," I adly and looks aard in the middle of all the pretty roses

"Itʼs wolfsbane," James offered timidly from across the table

Wolfsbane? Seriously? Leave it to Charlie

"Doesnʼt that like kill olves or sooing with," James said His voice was more confident as he discussed one of his favorite topics - weird stuff "Some stories say that it helps identify a wolf, others that it can suppress the change In one of the Dracula ersnaps it was used to make a cure for lycanthropy," Talley chimed in

James beamed at her It was the first time I had ever seen him smile It could have been the first time that he had smiled in his life, period It vastly iersnaps fan?"

"My mom would die if she knew, but Iʼve watched it at least ten ti on adorable as he and Talley slipped intofor me to have done would have been to let the wolfsbane subject drop I considered it before turning to Charlie and saying, "That was so thoughtful of you, but the full ht"

He didnʼt even flinch "Wolfsbane, huh? I told theaather y professor said that it would put the wearer under the control of the person who gave it to theht" His er traced from my inner wrist to the fold of my elbow I kneas all just a show for Alex, but oosebuuess Iʼll have to find soh thing "Of course sheʼs going to dance with you Youʼre her prohter, which was quickly getting on my nerves "Donʼt be such a Debbie Downer Itʼs prom You have to dance"

Why couldnʼtwas considered the eighth deadly sin? "I donʼt have to do anything," I snapped Joi flinched, uilt My shoulders drooped under the weight of it "You know I canʼt dance Iʼed"