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"You knohat you’re doing, Elle?" Wyatt said "You’re living in Wonderland This guy is older and speaks all these languages and lives this crazy life It’s different, it’s weird, it’s the Mad Kingdom down the rabbit hole It’s fun for a while, but you still have to go home eventually You can’t live there forever, Alice"

"I’m not Alice" She didn’t knohat she was--White Rabbit, White Queen or Jabberwocky--but she knew one thing perfectly well She was no stranger to Wonderland She was born there

"This is crazy, you and him"

"What can I say? We’re all h his red hair She did love his punk red dye job Be brutal, Kingsley had said Make it clean She threw a lock on her heart and put a bullet through her co a wo? No way"

"Cane her?"

"No"

"You kno to use a single-tail?"

"I don’t even knohat that is"

"Got a St Andrew’s Cross in your bedroom?"

"A what?"

"I am not what you think I am," she said "You are in love with so me out here," Wyatt said, his eyes wide and scared

"I haven’t even begun to freak you out yet"

"Elle?" Wyatt’s voice went quiet and soleive you that I can’t? Seriously I want to know the answer"

She turned her back on hi"

Alone in the back of the darkened cab, she let the tears fall No more She’d never let herself care about anyone else other than Søren again for the rest of her life It hurt too much In the privacy of her mind and in the midst of her sadness, she made herself a prouys ever She couldn’t do this, couldn’t straddle the line between torlds anymore It hurt too much Hurt Wyatt, hurt her It could hurt Søren, would have hurt Søren had he known And he would know She’d have to tell him