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"Shall the spiritus interruptus return again this year?" Eureka waved the flyer

He took it fro slapped

"You’re too cavalier," he said "That psycho wants to hurt you"

Eureka groaned, then inhaled a whiff of patchouli, which onlyHer hair oven in a long, intricate fishtail that draped down her side, and her eyes were lined with heavy kohl She’d pierced her nasal septu looped through her nose

"Is that the psycho you’re talking about?" Eureka asked Brooks "Why don’t you protect me? Go kick her ass"

Maya stopped at the door to the bathroom She flicked her braid to the other side and looked over her shoulder at them She made the bathrooe, B?"

"Yeah" Brooks nodded, but he didn’t see toward Eureka Did he want toNot really

Maya blinked heavily, and when her eyes opened, they were on Eureka She stared for a moment, sniffed, then slipped inside the bathroo sound

Brooks had ripped the flyer "You’re not going to this party"

"Don’t be such a draht toward Cat, who’d rounded the corner, hair wild and ed, like she’d just been interrupted in the Maze But knowing Cat, she

Brooks grabbed Eureka’s wrist She twisted to glare at hi when they were kids Her eyes were exclaer Neither of theo of her wrist, but as she walked away he called, "Eureka, trust o to that party"

Across the hall, Cat extended her elbow to Eureka, who slipped her ar laossip about Madaged Eureka into the bathroom

"Cat, wait" Eureka looked around the bathroom She didn’t have to kneel down and search to know Maya Cayce was in one of the stalls Patchouli was pungent

Cat plopped her purse on the sink and pulled out a tube of lipstick "I just hope there’s a real sex scene in the next email I hate books that are all foreplay I mean, I love foreplay, but at solanced over at Eureka in the ood oods"

Eureka was not going to talk about The Book of Love in front of Maya Cayce "I didn’t … I couldn’t really read it"

Cat squinted "Dude, you’reout"

A toilet flushed A door lock clicked Maya Cayce exited a stall, pushing between Eureka and Cat to stand before the , dark hair

"Do you want to borrow soh her purse "Oh, I forgot You bought every tube of it in the world"

Maya kept set to wash your hands," Cat chirped

Maya turned on the tap and reached over Cat to get some soap As she lathered her hands, she watched Eureka in theto the party with him, not you"

Eureka nearly choked Was that why Brooks had told her not to go? "I have other plans anyway" She was living in a bruise where everything hurt all the ti another

Maya turned off the faucet, flicked her wet hands in Eureka’s direction, and left the bathroo a podiuone "We are going to that party I’ve already checked in on Foursquare"

"Did you tell Brooks I saw Ander yesterday?"

Cat blinked "No I’ve barely talked to hied Cat staetting caught by their parents But how else would Brooks have known she’d seen Ander?

"More importantly," Cat said, "I will not let Maya Cayce psych you out of the best party of the year I needand Catover her shoulder, "You have no say in the matter We shall dress to attract the crows"

"We’re supposed to scare the crows, Cat"

Cat grinned "So you can read"