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“A bare hand is a s anyway”

“An instrument of what? Pleasure? Or pain?”

Tell smirked at her “You’ll just have to wait and see which one you like better, won’t you?”

The dancing was in full shen they returned to the gy, kids? Where you been?” Stephanie asked

“We toured the school You know, reliving old ia smacked his knee under the table “Why? What’d weliru for this event? Chuck E Cheese?”

Georgia choked on her drink

“No wonder no one wanted to help Sally And can you believe she tried to assign us seats?”

Stephanie leaned across the table “I had a run-in with Sally I told her if she pulled a bitch ether as the class couple, I would makeended and Sally took the stage to hand out the decade awards

And just like high school, the awards were stupid, dragged on way too long and were handed to the popular crowd With the exception of Georgia Her face was a blank

“The award for oes to…Tell McKay”

“Christ Really?” he ia said

He drained his beer before heading to the podiu and the small trophy He started toward the stairs, but so in front of people “I, ah, think everyone in this roo if we all stayed the saer applause

“Noe look back on the classmates we lost” The first picture on the screen behind the stage was of Matt Wilson, who’d died in combat in Iraq

Sally went on about all that Matt had accoe for a memorial plaque from the class

The second picture on the screen was of RJ Hotchkiss

Georgia tensed, but there wasn’t a perceptible change in her expression When Tell noticed everyone in the room looked for her, he reached under the table and set his hand on her knee

Sally talked briefly about RJ, mostly about his life because his death wasn’t noble Then she called Georgia to accept the“Georgia You have to go up there”

“I can’t”

“Yes, you can Go on now I’ll be right here when you’re done”