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Trey slips past ood-bye We’ll see each other at school We’re in the sa class--which we of course elected to take because why the heck not bring our pizza-crust- skills to a new level with clay? The other day I wasa plate on the potter’s wheel and nearly threw it up into the air when I was daydreaain

Sawyer Body bag Is he dead already?

In the hallway outside the bathroole the door handle and whisper as harshly as I can, "Hurry up, Rowan!"

Finally she comes

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We ease out of the alley in the ht to you by two chicks with big balls Har har Rowan flips down the loss, then fusses with her hair Ainto the seat like she’s given up on her looks for the day She’s been fussy about her looks a lot lately I think she’s got a crush, but I don’t say anything She pulls out her phone and takes a picture of herself and then studies it I s every block agonizingly slow, and I’hts red I tell myself not to look at the billboard as we pass, and allance at the last second, and there’s no Cuervojust the crash At school we park in the back of the lot, which is the only place the truck fits

I sprint through the parking lot to the school, huggingRowan behind Inside I speed walk to my locker and look down the hall like I always do, to where Sawyer is usually standing, hanging out with his friends, some of who to see through the crowd

At first I don’t see his, there he is in his usual spot Hoeird is it that I feel lances my way, and I almost duck, but realize at the last , so I quickly turnhard

And thenme to breathe before I pass out Sweat pricks my scalp I whip my hat off and slip out of my jacket, and then try to smooth down my flyaway hair in the littleto class, butdown the hallway The whole ti here, all I can think about is hoyer isn’t dead This vision thing scared the living crap out ofarewith me

All I know is that it can’t be a

Pleaseit just can’t be like those things at all

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