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"Look," I say, taking out uys that money for beer, and you know it If there really is soht away and ht--"
"Oh, definitely," Ja worried "But they can’t be passed out froht two six-packs--"
"Well, the basketball teaht a bottle of vodka," Gavin admits sheepishly
"Gavin!" Jamie cries
I feel as if I really have been shot, only this time in the head, not the spine, and with a real bullet That’s the size of thebehind my left eyeball "What?" I say
"Well, it’s not like I could stop ’e they are? That one Russian kid, Magnus, is nearly seven feet tall What was I going to say, ‘nyetski on the vodkaski’?"
Jamie thinks about this "Wouldn’t it be ‘nyet’? And ‘vodka’? I think those are Russian words"
"Fantastic," I say, ignoring theain "If any of those guys is the one who’s passed out, we’re not even going to be able to lift hiht now?"
Gavin looks excited He takes sooes to one of the caselow fro a floor plan of the building It’s covered in mysterious notations ht’s battle My headache stabsChinese takeout and watching Freaky Eaters with h for some reason Cooper fails to see the brilliance of Freaky Eaters, preferring to watch 60 Minutes, or as I like to call it, "The Show That Is Never About Freaky Eaters"
"We’ll probably need to split up to find the a swift sip before pointing at a location on the floor plan "We set up a bunker in the library because we can hear anybody co the service elevator We esti up somewhere on the first floor, most likely the cafeteria But they could be in the baseet down there, then take out all of theame--"
"Wait," Ja," Gavin says "So here’s the plan Jao down the front stairwell and see if anyone is hiding out in the base too many chemicals in the darkrooone to voiceanother "
"Heather, Heather, Heather," Gavin says, chidingly "Filital now, no one uses darkroo We killed you, so you’re our prisoner You have to do e say"
"Seriously," Jauys hear that?"
"If you killed me, that means I’m dead," I say "So I shouldn’t have to play"
"Those aren’t the rules," Gavin says "The e’ll take the office, then hide behind the salad bar--"
"McGoren," a deep, masculine voice says from the darkness of the hallway
Gavin looks up
"Nobody shoots Heather," es froets aith it"
Then he fires
Chapter 2