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"I sent out an invite to everyone in your email contacts You now have to wait and see if the rest of your contacts will actually follow"

My stomach rolls Great A popularity contest and my senior year hasn’t even started yet "I can delete the account, you know"

"You could," Addison responds "But you won’t I know you’ve wanted on Bragger but have been hesitant to do it Consider this your push"

"Why are we friends?"

"Because I’m pretty," she says to me, then cocks an annoyed hip as she assesses Joshua "That Reign of Terror stuff wasn’t bull We were terrified"

He eyes Addison in a way that suggests he’s thinking things involving her that seriously gross iven you a ride"

I toss my arms out to my sides "I asked for a ride! I texted, remember?"

"I said her, not you Besides, Lia to act like you don’t exist again That should as have played on ht--mad ere forced to share a bike as a Christhted It was a boy bike

"Then do et theot dishes"

Joshua claims his keys froot her checkbook and told ets hori in a dark roost You want her help, you ask for it"

We both know the result of that conversation I’m envious of Joshua, always have been He’s an island in our family Calm Tranquil Maintains his distance from everyone he’s blood-related to Joshua learned quickly to befriend people outside of our family and he sticks closely with them--not us And gles his eyebrows as he opens the door I launch a wet dishrag in his direction and Joshua dodges it by racing out The rag hits the door fra roo It’s not her fake cry for attention, it’s the real one I’ door that it stings h of relief when I don’t spot blood pouring from her head

Mom’s last nonbroken vase is in pieces on the floor and Elsie is nursing her elbow There’s a s out of the skin The sht holds her hands up toher up on my hip, then scan the room for Zac