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The car passed under a streetlight that e Mae saw Jamie properly for afor a second like a tiny star He looked tired
“I know you had your reasons,” he said “I just don’t think any of theood ones”
He sounded bleak and terribly young, and Mae was always on his side before she was on anyone else’s She put her arled into her side, and she was only a little concerned he ht be sick on her awesome Mae West shirt
She had been so stupid, not watching Ja that he was so irritable and unhappy because he liked someone ould never like him back
She glared at the back of Nick’s head and said, furious and irrational, “You could have danced with him at the club”
“I could have,” Nick said “There were kids froh Anyway, I don’t really dance for pleasure much”
“Uh—so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?” Seb asked
“Yeah,” said Nick “The ballet is my passion”
They carried on sniping in the front seat, and Mae turned back to Jamie
“You doing okay?” she murmured
“Yes,” Jamie said, a bit too earnestly “I love you, Mae Your hair is the color of flaazed soulfully in Nick’s direction “So psychotic, you are quite funny And you!” He regarded Seb for a long moment “No, I still don’t like you,” he decided “Maybe I need another drink”
“I don’t think so,” Nick said
He turned the car into their driveheels crunching on the gravel, and Ja neatly into the curve of her shoulder
“Coently as she could out of the car “We’re going to be sneaking around the back now so Annabel doesn’t see us,” she infor the worst date in the history of the universe, but if it’s any consolation, now that Ja mad”
Seb smiled at her, warm and pleased
Mae and Ja ivy that alate Jaged hi door into their house Which was completely dark, as all the s had been, Mae realized, when they drove through the gate
Sneaking around had been totally pointless Annabel was not even home
Mae let out a deep breath, feeling her lad that they could get aith as much as they did
“Don’t be sad, Mae,” Ja for e are ninjas”
Mae flipped on the light switch and turned on the tap to get Jalass of water She held it to his lips and watched him drink it down
“Ninjas often get distracted by plants, do they?” Mae smirked
Jaave her a betrayed look “Entertained, are we? Go ahead, laugh at my pain I see how it is I am your enterpainment”
She guided him up the stairs with a hand on his back and went into his bedroom with him, because she didn’t want to leave him alone when he was still so drunk Jamie almost tripped over the pillow Nick had left on the floor, but she righted him and dumped him on his bed
Jaled blue bedsheets, his glass of water held before hied on the floor in front of him
“I knohy you got drunk,” she said, soft “I knohy you’re so unhappy”
She was ready to tell him that Nick was a demon, that he was a monster, that he wasn’t worth a
Jaainst his skin, “You must think I’m such a fool”
“No,” she said, and reached for hi a little “Oh, Jamie I understand”
“It’s just he’s so … ,” Jaan, and he stopped “It isn’t that he’s nice to hts for the people who are his, and he tries so hard”
“I know,” she said, her voice sinking She didn’t want it to sink, she wanted to be strong and able to carry herself and Ja
The low lights refracted in her vision, spilling blurred yellow lines across the dihter than it did in shadow, beca silver crown held between his arms
“If I could just make him understand”
“Ja to help him understand, and he’s so different from us, he’s—”
“Not from me,” Jamie told her The way he sounded, lonely and small, broke her heart
“Yes,” she said, and her voice went scratchy “Yes, he is I understand why you love him, Jamie, but there’s just no hope He’s just not human”
She stared when Jamie lifted his head and blinked at her, a corner of hisin a faint version of his usual crooked smile “Um,” he said “Mae Do you think it’s Nick?”
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The car passed under a streetlight that e Mae saw Jamie properly for afor a second like a tiny star He looked tired
“I know you had your reasons,” he said “I just don’t think any of theood ones”
He sounded bleak and terribly young, and Mae was always on his side before she was on anyone else’s She put her arled into her side, and she was only a little concerned he ht be sick on her awesome Mae West shirt
She had been so stupid, not watching Ja that he was so irritable and unhappy because he liked someone ould never like him back
She glared at the back of Nick’s head and said, furious and irrational, “You could have danced with him at the club”
“I could have,” Nick said “There were kids froh Anyway, I don’t really dance for pleasure much”
“Uh—so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?” Seb asked
“Yeah,” said Nick “The ballet is my passion”
They carried on sniping in the front seat, and Mae turned back to Jamie
“You doing okay?” she murmured
“Yes,” Jamie said, a bit too earnestly “I love you, Mae Your hair is the color of flaazed soulfully in Nick’s direction “So psychotic, you are quite funny And you!” He regarded Seb for a long moment “No, I still don’t like you,” he decided “Maybe I need another drink”
“I don’t think so,” Nick said
He turned the car into their driveheels crunching on the gravel, and Ja neatly into the curve of her shoulder
“Coently as she could out of the car “We’re going to be sneaking around the back now so Annabel doesn’t see us,” she infor the worst date in the history of the universe, but if it’s any consolation, now that Ja mad”
Seb smiled at her, warm and pleased
Mae and Ja ivy that alate Jaged hi door into their house Which was completely dark, as all the s had been, Mae realized, when they drove through the gate
Sneaking around had been totally pointless Annabel was not even home
Mae let out a deep breath, feeling her lad that they could get aith as much as they did
“Don’t be sad, Mae,” Ja for e are ninjas”