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"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"
"Don’t quote Monty Python to h "No, you’re not You’re just grouchy because you’re in pain"
"I’rouchy because you led et a bad rap," he says "They only attack when they’re scared or hungry We’re monsters in their eyes And that snake that bit you shouldn’t have been in that cave The te it otten lost in there so as it’s not through some tiny crack in the walls here This is our cave, you hear me, snake?" I call out "I wonder how this cave foro, or whatever"
"I don’t know, but it reara Fault"
"What’s that?"
"Well, Miss Everhart, I’lad you asked," he says, jolly "See, it’s this Japanese horror rumble
"--in which thousands of human-shaped holes appear in the side of a mountain after an earthquake People soon discover that there’s a perfect hole for each person, made just for them, and when they find their own hole, they beco to climb inside of it"
"That soundsweird What happens when they get inside?"
"Are you sure you want to know?"
I shake my head "I really, really don’t No ht"
He chuckles "My work here is done And yes, I think we should definitely stay here tonight So I’ht" I lean back onmy wound It’s pretty swollen, I think He says it will be fine by tomorrow He finds a couple of Band-Aids to keep the puncture et infected
"We’re not, by the way," he says quietly, pulling the paper backing off a bandage
"ExcuseWe broke up before summer break Well, she broke up withthis back up now I’m also a little embarrassed about how relieved I am to know it "I’m sorry," I tell hi to say Of course he--
"I wasn’t," he says, surprising e "It was cool at first, me and Jovana But we never reallyclicked I tried I really did It just felt like so She said I was distant and distracted, and that I was hung up on someone else"
My heart thumps rapidly inside my chest "Were you?"
"Yes"
I hold my breath, unsure of what this means Part of me would like to pass him a note that reads Do you like me? Check YES or NO But I’m too h And then it will be aard between us for the rest of the trip