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"My mom once took me in the ladies’ roo and she had a ice cube and she was rubbing it on her eye and she said, ‘If Harry hits me one more time, I don’t knohat I’ll do,’ and then this other lady came out of a stall and she said, ‘If Harry hits you one ive hiun down on the sink Made ofAnd thenyou to thethat Max had lived a very, very interesting life I took out ot the kids organized She told Henry that they were all going to stick together and go in the ladies’ rooroans froso chair I was sitting on

"Jesus, Dean, are you a total reject? Are you froes?"

"Brayden…," Jake said fro, a "lay off" implicit in his tone

"No, it’s just, I knew that Geraldine eird, I just didn’t understand the total extremity of the situation"

"I write stuff down," I said "I just like to write"

"Bet there’s stuff about rabbed the journal fro to th away

When I tried to grab it, he’d switch it to the other hand

It was a scene straight out of first grade

"I bet there’s stuff about all of us," Brayden taunted "Especially Astrid"

I would’ve killed him if she’d overheard that But she was off with the kids

You know, you’d think that being locked in a Greenway during the end of the world would bring out the best in everyone, but--surprise!--Brayden was still an a-hole and a bully

Brayden tore a page out and squinted at it, keeping the rest held above his head and out ofto himself

"You’re such a jerk, Brayden!" I shouted "How can you still be this immature?"

"Brayden, drop it," Jake commanded

"Don’t you want to knohat it says about you, Simonsen?"

"I SAID DROP IT!" Jake shouted

Brayden ju, squared off to Brayden, with his hands in fists His good-natured sone He was pissed

"Whatever," Brayden said and tossed the notebook to the end of the aisle

"You gotta learn when to lay off, ize," Brayden said to Jake, paled "For real Sorry"

Did I call Brayden a dick under my breath as I scrambled over the fallen books to retrieve my journal?

Of course I did

And then there came this thin, tinny sound Like a fire alar louder

It was Ulysses

He was screa for us

We ran toward him and then we could hear theand inhuman sounds

Niko pushed the door open

The little children had gone crazy

The McKinley tere hiding under the sinks

Chloe was sitting on Max and had her teeth sunk into his scalp There was blood on the ground

They were screa each other

But Astrid

She had Batiste by the throat, up against the wall

Her face was red The veins in her throat were throbbing, huge She looked like a bull

And Batiste was getting killed He was getting strangled to death and I hope you never see it because it is a horrible thing to see His face was blue and his eyes were big and his legs were limp