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"That’s" I didn’t have a word for it

"A really great excuse to do it," she finished for me "He couldn’t move, so I was in control I think that’s been "

"You seehed at the understatereat" She looked into thehulk of hiine it working out any more perfectly"

She must have suddenly remembered that Sawyer and I were the Perfect Couple That Never Was, in nauilty look and put her eyes back on the road

The parking lot at the stadiu held was littered with cars and buses Harper cruised until she found our school buses, with our band hanging out the s She parked nearby

While she was still helping Brody ed body out of her back seat, I popped out of the car and thought I recognized the car next to us "Quinn and Noah are here," Iinside to see if it was really Quinn’s I was looking for the interchangeable components of his black leather Goth look What I saw instead was Sawyer’s nized him before the words had escapedunderneath the bus s, high-fiving the irlfriend’s looking for you"

Sawyer turned and saw ht he did I still wasn’t sure which part of the bird head he saw fros open

I crashed into him His arms enveloped me He squeezed me, picked o But the pelican was always kind to ive

When he finally put ered it "Or, thanks to your dad"

He nodded Whereas this would have been a movement of an inch for anybody else, his beak ht"

He hugged ’s okay between us in costued

"Well, itme how you feel when you’re not in the costu you how I feel at all I’d really like us to try again It tookwhile, to figure out that I love you with all my heart"

He put his hand over his own heart

Then he reached up and tugged upward on his head The thing was so big that it took a few seconds to pull off Underneath, his hair was a riot of every shade of blond, and his eyes were bright blue Looking deep into ain, when I’m not in costume"

"I love you," I said, "with all love into my hair and kissed me deeply

"Wooooooo," the band on the bus moaned appreciatively, which , Ms Naka from the pole inside the bus and leaned down the staircase, out the doorway "Mr De Luca, Ms Gordon, this is a school function"

"Yes, ht," Sawyer toldhands, aited for Brody to limp over, followed by Harper, Noah, and Quinn As alked toward the stadiuht of late afternoon, I wondered if we’d be allowed into a band competition with Sawyer dressed as a six-foot bird

We would find a way