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“Sure he is, Lina” Brittany laughed “And my dad’s Jack Nicholson”

Jett frowned at her “So who is it really?”

Lina stared at them All of a sudden she felt unwelcoed “I told you, it’s Angel DeMarco”

Jett stared at her, one black eyebrow rising slowly “I read he had AIDS”

“No,” she answered “He just had bypass surgery No big deal”

“Oh, right,” Brittany said with a humph, “like you would know”

She spun to face the crowd “I do know I spent the whole weekend with hiery”

“You’re a liar,” Jett said softly, and she knew the second he spoke that the group would follow hiive me a smoke, willya?”

“Buy your own,” she snapped

Jett spun to face her again “What did you say?”

She stared up at hi-pale skin and bloodshot eyes and the too-black hair that fell across his forehead She wondered what she’d ever seen in hiht You guys are a bunch of losers”

The look in Jett’s eyes turned ugly “Oh, really?” he whispered

She backed up “Yeah, really”

Jett followed her She tripped on a stone and thudded to a sit He ca down at her “Where do you think you’re going?”