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“Will there be T-shirts and pins for this new movement?”

“Probably We’re looking into luggage insignia as well, maybe even some corporate product endorsements from Nike or IBM”

I don’t realize I a, until Nick takes a strand of hair that’s fallen in front of my face and tucks it behind my ear and for a second I feelat each other eye to eye and there’s possibly forgiveness in there, and it’s possibly mutual, and for that second my sto as dread, and because I a loser who never learns, I blurt out, “I sort of know you already, actually”

“Huh?” he says

The food rush has infiltratedand saying too h Tris She and I aren’t friends exactly, only we’re not not-friends exactly, either You reat lyrics I would see that stuff you gave her and always think, Hey, I wouldn’t o after Tris’s boyfriend or anything, and I’uess…” Oh, fk it, why not just be honest? He’s not the one absolved—I aht be a cool person even before I’d met you, based on purely circumstantial evidence So you don’t think I randouy”

There is a silence, and in that silence I hate all boys, for never knowing the right thing to say “Why did you leave?” he asks Why did YOU stop?

“National security eot beeped Turned out to be a false alarm” Why do you think I left, beautiful moron?

And we’re at a stalemate We eat

“Where are your friends?” I finally say after a couple pierogies Just to say soh any moment to retrieve him, probably steal et his fking phone back

Nick says, “Dev left with Ted”

“Ted?”

“You know, Ted from Are You Randy?”

“There’s no Ted frouys, none named Ted”

“Then who’s Randy?” Nick asks

“The guy as trying to get with Caroline!”

“Who’s Caroline?”

“For fk’s sake, who’s TED?”

“The guy Dev hooked up with!”

“That’s HUNTER From Hunter Does Hunter”