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"Itmy aring I was going to let her get aith it since soon I’d be getting e in the kitchen Winky hadn’t seen the inside of that fridge yet

"No, not that kind of flick," said Derek "It means he used to be in the flicks, but he’s not anyhost of a smile moved across his lips

"What is da flicks?" Bodohis face closer "The movies Flicks are the movies You were fa She obviously wasn’t i His hair was like a rat’s nest it had so many knots in it, and his face so dirty it was hard to see the guy beneath, but he had brilliant blue eyes and now that Derekthere; like he was fa And possibly very cute underneath all the gri at Flick’s face, "…I know you! You’re that kid! That kid!" He started snapping his fingers and looking up at the ceiling "Co my memory is full of holes these days"

Flick sighed heavily "Any chance we could just let this drop?"

"Nope, hmm-umm," said Ronald He looked back at Flick "Don’t worry I’ll figure this out Unless you want to cut to the chase and enlighten us"

"No, thanks"

Ronald grinned "Challenge accepted" He looked at Derek "Don’t tell me I’ll remember eventually"

"Whatever you say, man It’s Flick’s secret, not "

Derek re He was tall and probably blonde It was hard to tell these days as dirt and as brown hair He was the leader of the kids who’d just arrived and someone I wanted to consider as a possible more official leader of Haven I planned to watch him closely over the next few days or weeks to see if he was up to the task I knee’d eventually take a vote, since I wasn’t cool with being a chiefesse or dictator, but still … it orth knoe’d be getting ourselves into A revolution or revolt was one of those things-to-be-avoided-at-all-costs as far as I was concerned Haven needed solid leadership

"Cos that are down this way," said Ronald, walking again

"Like what?" asked Bodo

"We need carts to roll the bodies on I think there are some in the kitchen, but there could be sos we’ll need"

"Like bleach," Winky suggested

"Yeah Like bleach," agreed Ronald "Although we’re probably going to need another crew for that After we lift all those bodies we’re going to be too tired to do usted probably," Iforward to this task at all I knew it had to be done, but that didn’t make it any easier to deal with

We spent about twenty e We found four large rolling carts that would be big enough to put bodies on, lots of rubber work gloves, and plenty of cleaning products

Jamal came in with Gretchen, both of theloves, and boots

"Sweet," said Flick "Total hazuess everyone’s sizes," said Jaet new stuff if it doesn’t fit"

"Here," she said, handing me a suit "This was the smallest they had in there Same with the boots" She dropped a pair of black rubber boots atas my father

I stepped into the suit and zipped it up The material wasn’t plastic, but it felt like it would repelon the outside The leg parts and sleeves were about six inches too long Gretchen immediately stepped over and helped me roll them up She already had her own outfit on, and it fit a lot better than mine did; probably because she was about four inches taller

I put ular shoes because they were so big, but the guys all took off their regular stuff and put the boots on either over bare feet or nasty, dirty socks

"I think we’d better get a laundry tea at the brown socks being shoved into boots

"I think we just need to have a giant fire pit where we can burn all of the else?"

"No You can finish getting your stuff on" I positionedout there?"

"Triage Trying to figure out all the injuries we have to deal with and who’s qualified to help work on that stuff"

"How’s Fohi?" I asked, sliding my mask over my face It was the chemical warfare type with filter canisters on the sides

"He’s in bad shape We need to deal with him first I think he’s the worst of everyone"

"Maybe I should go back," said Winky "I have all the medical stuff in my backpack"

Gretchen looked over at her "Don’t worry about it They have a kid in their group who does medical stuff Doctor Billy they call hiood I talked to hiot here They already have your stuff set up"