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"Uh, what?"

"Was I thinking out loud? I do that sometimes The doctors say it’s probably Tourette’s but I say it’s a higher evolutionary process of humanity Someday the entire world will be like irl’s pink eyebrows shoot up, and she laughs It’s a full, rich laugh, like stew instead of the giggly soup of irls’ She holds out her hand

"Yvette Yvette Monroe"

I shake it "Isis Blake But my friends call me Crazy Or Idiot Sometimes both at once"

Yvette snize one of the fabulous skull earrings she’s wearing There’s another pair in htly stalkerish, but I can’t help but notice you’ve decapitated Jack Skellington and put his "I like bones"

"So do I, actually, because our skeletons support a massive interconnected muscular structure and without them ould be blobs of flesh Also ouldn’t have ers to flip people off with Are you in Room 14B?"

Yvette’s eyes widen "Yeah, so you’re -"

"MY ROOMMATE!" I screech A passing guy winces and flips me off I loudly inform him he has his skeleton to thank for that Yvette seems pleased She thumps her arm across my shoulders and I sink about two inches into the soft dirt

"You first," She says, leading ed foot race? Because I’ll have you know I only have one really good leg, the other is kind of unshaved and unsexy -"

"First to spill your life story Where are you from?"

"Uh, Ohio Or I rew up there then uess - hell You’re from Hell"

"I am definitely from Hell Hell, Kansas"

"I like uncooked ra like aexcept bacon and pickles And I don’t drive"

"One tirade I stuck candy up my nose to impress a boy Spoiler: he was not impressed"

Yvette looks i because it’s the first year of college and I already know I’ to drop out"

And it’s her honesty that kills me It’s the way she says it - all frank, undra I should’ve had So that, if I had, would have saved someone’s life, maybe