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Was that a white flag? "See, it wasn’t so hard to say soet used to it"

What’s shocking is that I’m not swa terror that I’m next to the lady who voluntarily lay in a casket And what’s kick-in-the-head surprising? I’ the inside of Olivia’s arm and my happy moment fades "How sick are you?"

Olivia produces the sad smile The type where the corners of thedown The oneis okay and it isn’t My stoh that I threw h me and I push the conversation forward, away fro out too e, never on what he can" Olivia’s eyelids flutter and s to slide off her bed and Olivia stops me "Stay"

"But you’re tired"

"Stay," she demands in the kind of voice that causes ive you another clue toure out, especially if you can convince Oz to help you"

"You realize that this is a ht? You have to aded What do you do for birthday parties around here? Load up piñatas with snakes? You are, by far, the strangest group of people I have everOdds are she’s heard the saht my attention "Maybe that’s Eli"

And what’s weird is the happy anticipation of seeing hi forward to the next few days?

The sheets shift and then ins to tremble A deadly cold overtakesIt’s Olivia Her body flinches uncontrollably Quaking in a way that’s unnatural Her eyes roll back in her head and her arm drops off the bed

I hover over her as I hold on to her hand "Olivia!" She continues to shake and panic bursts inside me "Olivia!"

Terrified to leave her, unsure what to do, I turn my head and scream, "Oz! I need you!"

Her body still twitches under my touch and she needs help and I don’t knohat to do Her body e and I lean over her to prevent her fro off My eyes search frantically for a phone and when I coain "Oz! Plea--"