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Zu flipped the fli down When she held it up for hi division? I think you’re getting ahead of yourself, it "

I watched hi up from my core All of this would have been so much easier if he wasn’t the only one of us who looked old enough to pass for twenty--at least I’d feel a lot better knowing one of us could be out there watching his back Liah the back of his jacket, because he stopped and turned to wave before disappearing around the corner

"You really have to stop encouraging hi as he used the blunt end of her pencil to follow lines of nue "He needs to accept reality at so like a piece of hard leue She punched him in the shoulder

"I’m sorry," he said, but clearly wasn’t "It’s just a waste of ti to get the chance to use it"

"You don’t know that," I said Flashing Zu a reassuring se by the ti in "norh up to that point could only be used as support for Chubs’s arguht, even if I didn’t want to ads were nor to attend later this fall I’d have taken ames and prom, taken chemistry…"

His voice trailed off, but I picked up the frayed ends of his thought all the saht about when I let et to that dark place of should-be and could-have-been My e not afforded to everyone, but she rong--it wasn’t a privilege It was our right We had the right to a future

Zu sensed the shift ofsilently We needed a change of subject

"Pffft," I said, crossing ainst the seat "Like you would have ever gone to a football game"

"Hey, I resent that!" Chubs handed Zu her notebook "Here, you need to work on your nines" When he turned back tolook "I can’t believe you of all people fell for his cotton candy dreams"

"What’s that supposed to mean?"

"You were in Thurmond for what--five years?"

"Six," I corrected "And you’rethe point It’s not that I believe in what Lee’s saying; it’s that I hope he’s right I really, really hope he’s right, because what’s the alternative? We’re stuck hiding out until their generation dies off? We flee to Canada?"

"Good luck with that," Chubs said "Both Canada and Mexico have built walls to keep us out and theious disease"