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"What’s wrong?" she asked, her eyebrows scrunching together
"Nothing," I said, trying to brush off her concern, standing up and atte in the distant trees
"Is it so," I said, looking back at her "Really Just forget it"
"You can tell me, you knoon’t tell anyone"
How can I tell her that she’s the problem and only because she’s cute and I’m afraid Bodo will like her more than me? Or that I’m just a stupid idiot who doesn’t kno to act with a boyfriend?
"I pro to show her how happy I was
"That’s kind of scary, actually," she said, eyeing me warily
"What? My sht it was your death stare"
I reached down and slapped her arm "Screw you"
"So I’ll see you at dinner?" she asked, standing up and backing through the entrance into the other hut before turning around
I smiled at the instincts that subconsciously told her not to turn her back on me "Yeah, sure See you then" I watched her walk away, thinking about how ridiculous it was that Winky was impossible to hate when I wanted to dislike her sooff to sleep as I listened to the rhyth Bodo to a tiny nut crusher of a girl and being alone in the sith only Peter and Buster to keep me company
I woke to find both Peter and Bodo asleep beside me, each of them on their mattresses
Buster saw that I ake and i him away but his twisted poodle brain saw that as an invitation to play He kept diving back in for more attention, fully focused on his lick attack It o after the canners Maybe I could train him to bite ankles He’d be unstoppable
"Quit, Buster!" I nudged Peter "Peter, get your pink weasel away from me He smells"
Peter reached out with a sleepy ar hi his licking energies onto Peter’s face
"Ugh, Buster, what did you eat for breakfast? Anchovies?" came Peter’s muffled voice
I looked over at the entrance to the hut, and before I could even forht in my brain, I screamed
Bodo jumped up out of a sound sleep and rolled onto his knees, yelling,"Was zuh at the ridiculous sounds that had just co as I stared at the gross thing in front ofscared to death "Please tell me there aren’t any dead people over there" His back was to the entrance of the hut and he stayed that way, al to turn around and face reality
"No Not a person, anyway" I got up slowly and went over to the body lying on the ground at the entrance I kicked it a little withanywhere
"Be careful, Bryn," warned Bodo "Iss it dead?"
"Yeah"
"What?!" yelled Peter
"A snake," explained Bodo "A bigk one"
"It’s not that big," said Coli, walking over fro it dangle down by her side as she continued "You guys co for the recon mission and stuff"
I eyed the snake in her hand "What happened to its head?" It looked like it had been put down an autoe disposal, head first
Coli nodded at Buster "My guess is your dog happened to it"
I looked over in horror at Buster, whoseto lick Peter
"Uh, Peter? Buster wasn’t eating anchovies … he was eating a frigging anaconda"
"Gah!!" said Peter, shoving Buster off of hi up He rushed over to our pantry, pulled a bottle of water off the shelf, and poured it on his face and neck where Buster had recently been giving hi at the snake hanging by Coli’s side "That is theI’ve ever seen" He turned his ire on the dog "Buster, what is wrong with you? Why would you eat its head of all things?"
"I think dat’s very smart"
"S me?"
"No, dat’s not a joke You don’t prefer dat he eat da snake’s butt do you? Dat wouldn’t be good for esting Buster eat the snake’s butt I’ off its head …" He shuddered and didn’t continue
"What are you going to do with it?" I asked Coli, al she wouldn’t answerto say that" I sighed Itto seriously consider the idea of not asking anycrew My meals would probably taste better if I didn’t know exactly what I was eating
"I’ that No way, no how," said Peter
"You already have I mean, not this snake, but other ones just like it" She s at Buster "Only they usually still have the head on the away to leave a stone mask in its place "I’ll be back in a fewaway towards the outhouse with his head held high
"Iss he gonna do a stress doodle or sohed a little, not sure I understood "A stress doodle?"