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"You haven’t known ," I scoffed "How can you be so sure?"

"I’s," he replied sih He didn’t always have an answer for everything, but the things he knew, he really kneas about to ask hi, but then his head shot up sharply

"Watch out"

"Watch out for what?" I tried to keep ot nervous, I was terrified

He stepped in front of , but I peered around hier

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At first, I thought it was a giant grizzly bear barreling towards us Then it ran underneath a la There was a dog park on the other side of the park, so I wouldn’t have thought anything of it if Jack hadn’t been on such high alert

"It’s just a dog," I told hi that would somehow relax him

"I knohat it is" He see, probably whether he should run or stay put, but the dog was approaching quickly,snarled at us, but it never even slowed down Drool and slobber spewed from its mouth, and its eyes had a crazed, intense look I had never seen on an anied at Jack He held one ar, and he held his other ar his forear latched on it with a loud crunching sound that made my blood curdle, and I screarabbing the dog by the back of the neck

"Go back to the car!" Jack shouted

He had pinned the dog to the ground by kneeling on its back and wrapping his hands around its neck There was blood strea and growling viciously

But I stayed frozen, gaping at Jack and the dog

"Alice! Go back to the car!"

"Why?" I felt nauseous, but I didn’t want to leave Jack If I did, I knew that soh I didn’t even knohat that ed through my body, andback to the car

Before I had evenyelp, and my stomach dropped My heart pounded erratically in my chest, and I wanted to throw up