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"You are like that, Tally You have always been like that! No cure is going totio You didn’t need any operation to make you selfish and shallow and full of yourself You already were"
Tally tried to answer, but so off her words Then she noticed the quiet around the The other Cri the silence Pretties didn’t fight They hardly ever argued, and they certainly never shouted at one another in the middle of a party That sort of obnoxious behavior was strictly for uglies
She looked down at her wrist, wondering if Shay’s raised voice had gotten through the layers of cloth and plastic If so, it would all end tonight
Shay pulled away and whispered fiercely, "I ain tomorrow, Tally But I’ll res I say to you, trust me, I am not your friend" She turned and walked into the trees, thrashing through frozen branches
Tally looked around at the other Cri sharply in thethe wasteful fire She felt alone and exposed with all of the at her But after a few more horriblebreakthrough stories again
Tally’s head spun The change in Shay had been so shocking, so complete, and she hadn’t even taken a pill A few er had transformed her from a placid pretty to a wild beastIt didn’t make sense
Suddenly, Tally re Special Circumstances
After his friends had run away, hehe knew about the Slies there Maybe that hat had kept hi away, his guilt over having betrayed his friends to Dr
Cable
Of course, Tally had her own guilty secrets So she’d stayed bubbly too, never quite fitting in, never quite sure of what she wanted, no ly ee her
And Shay had been transforer Concealed behind her pretty smiles were suppressed memories of the betrayals that had cost her David, the S up the tower and falling through the ice - enough sti that anger to the surface And now she hated Tally Maybe Shay wouldn’t need the pills at all - h
Perhaps, thanks to every terrible thing that Tally Youngblood had ever done to her, Shay would find her oay to a cure
RAIN
Tally woke up with an uglylight soh to cut flesh The rain beat against Zane’sin ernails
But Tally didn’t ardens, reducing the view to gray and green blotches, the lights of other lass
The downpour had started late the night of the party, finally extinguishing the Crims’ bonfire, as if Dr Cable had called the heavens down to drown their celebration For the two days since, Tally and Zane had been trapped inside, unable to speak freely within the smart walls of Pulcher Mansion She hadn’t even had a chance to tell hi Dr Cable in the woods Not that she was looking forward to revealing what she’d confessed to Shay, or bringing up what Cable had told her about Zane’s past
This s, but Tally couldn’t face any more requests to join the Crie had made them the hottest clique in New Pretty Town, but a bunch of new members was exactly what the Crims didn’t need "What they needed was to stay bubbly Tally worried, though, that a third day stuck inside by the rain would bore everyone back into being pretty-heads
Zane was already awake, sipping coffee and staring out the , absently spinning his cuff with one finger He glanced at her as she stirred, but didn’t make a sound The silence between them since they’d been cuffed had felt conspiratorial, their secret whispers intiradually shutting the: Tally had hardly known Zane before that day they’d climbed the tower What Dr Cable had told her made Tally realize that she still didn’t know him very well
But once the cuffs were off and they were outside the city, their memories freed fro to stop theus weather, huh?" she said
"Just a few degrees colder and it’d be snowing"
Tally brightened "Yeah, snoould be totally pretty-" She fished a dirty T-shirt from the floor, wadded it up, and threw it at his head "Snowball fight!"
He let it bounce off hiht of the party had passed, but it had left hi said a word, they both knew they would have to escape the city soon
It all caave hers an experi only centi the day before, deteret the thing off, but Tally wondered if she would ever be skinny enough
The cuff’s circumference looked just smaller than the width of the bones in her hand, ato alter
She stared at the redbone that was the joint of her left thu the thu roo hed Sonored and had come around in person