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"Come on, it’s the first club we’ve heard about in weeks I don’t think we shouldthe last of the tables and I was exhausted, but I knew better than to complain I worked hard, butvoice to their weariness, even though I could see it etched in the new lines on my mother’s face and in the worried expression my father wore each and every day
"I don’t know, Brook, a club is the last place I feel like going tonight Besides, where’d you even hear about this place?"
"Those guys The ones fro you withabout you, or at least one of them was I think he kind of likes you"
"Or ed" When Brook stiffened, I realized it lib about the incident Clearly, she wasn’t ao hoe the subject "My dad’s really mad at me"
But Brooklynn was deterht That way he doesn’t have to know you’re going out Besides, it’ll give him a chance to cool off" She turned her wide eyes on me, the way I’d seen her do to hundreds of different o for a while, and if you don’t want to stay, then we’ll both leave"
I stopped what I was doing and puther to look me in the eyes and lie like that "No, on’t"
"We will I swear it"
I pursedeven as I asked, "What about Aron? Is he going?" I already knew the answer, of course Brooklynn never asked Aron to come with us
Brook rolled her eyes as if my question was unreasonable "You know they’re not exactly looking for ets all twitchy and over-protective"
The door between the kitchen and the dining rooht My father passed the doorway, and I caught a gliround, relance that I’d ain, disappeared into the depths of the kitchen, I looked back at Brooklynn
" All right," I ht, o"
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Brooklynnsecond--and even third--thoughts
I glanced around Soht Most of the clubs were don, tucked away in the industrial districts, but somehow this was darker--and dirtier--than any of the places we’d ever been before
From the streets behind us, I heard the faint crackle of the loudspeaker The e was so muffled and tinny that if I hadn’t already memorized the words, I wouldn’t have been able to make them out: "PASSPORTS MUST BE CARRIED AT ALL TIMES"