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"It’s not going to be a proble out with Special Circuh Tally when Shay said that, like a ping, but hurting "Still I hate not being bubbly"

"It’s Peris’s and Fausto’s fault for not telling us what they’re wearing"

"Let’s just wait till they get here And copy thereed "Want a drink?"

"I think so"

Tally was too spinning to go anywhere, so Shay told the breakfast tray to go and get sone

When Peris and Fausto came in, they were on fire

It was really just sparklers wound into their hair and stuck onto their clothes, hing because it tickled They were both wearing bungee jackets - their costu building

"Fantastic!" Shay said

"Hysterical," Tally agreed, but then asked, "but how is that Crim?"

"Don’t you remember?" Peris said "When you crashed a party last su off the roof? Best ugly trick in history!"

"Surebut why are you on fire?" Tally asked "I ’s really on fire"

Shay was giving Tally a look like she was saying soee jackets," Fausto said "Being on fire is much bubblier"

"Yeah," Peris said, but Tally could tell he sahat she meant, and was sad now She wished she hadn’t mentioned it Stupid Tally The costumes really were bubbly

They put the sparklers out to save them for the party, and Shay told the hole in the wall to !" Fausto complained, but it turned out not to ee jackets, in case so and splatted It couldn’tcomplicated or permanent And Requisition wouldn’t send any up because there wasn’t a fire

Shay snorted "The et those?" Tally asked

"They’re real" Peris s his jacket "We stole them from the roof"

"So they are Cri him

With Peris in her ar to suck, or that anyone was going to vote against her His big brown eyes beamed down into hers, and he lifted her up and squeezed her hard

She’d always felt this close to Peris back in ugly days, playing tricks and growing up together It was bubbly to feel this way right now

All those weeks that Tally had been lost in the wild, all she’d ever wanted was to be back here with Peris, pretty in New Pretty Town It was totally stupid being unhappy today, or any day Probably just too ne "Best friends forever," she whispered to hi?" Shay said She was deep in Tally’s closet, poking around for ideas She held up a shapeless mass of wool

"Oh, that" Tally let her arms fall from around Peris "That’s my sweater froe, not like she remembered It was messy, and you could see where huether People in the Smoke didn’t have holes in the wall - they had to s, and people, it turned out, weren’t very good at s

"You didn’t recycle it?"

"No I think it’s made of weird stuff Like, the hole can’t use it "

Shay held the sweater to her nose and inhaled "Wow It still smells like the Smoke Campfires and that steays ate Remember?"