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Zach lurched toward them He was so unsteady he tripped over a stone and fell down “Is she okay?”

“Iss tio,” Mia said “Mom’ll kill us if we’re late Wha time is it?”

“Two ten,” Lexi said, squinting at her watch She thought that was right The nu

“Oh SHIT ” Zach staggered to his feet “We gotta go ”

They rassy lawn, stepping around the bodies of their passed-out classhed, yelled, “Oops! Sorry ”

As they staggered to the car, it hit Lexi: Zach was drunk She turned to him

He stood there, swaying like a palm tree in the trade winds, his eyes closed

Then she looked at Mia, as puking again Blood was dripping down the side of her face

“You can’t drive,” Lexi said to Zach

Mia got closer to the car and bent forward like a rag doll, pressing her cheek against the hood “Call Mo in her pocket for her phone, dropped it on the ground

Lexi picked up the phone

“No way,” Zach said “Lass tirounded us ”

“Hesh right,” Mia said “Less jus go ”

Lexi tried to concentrate, but she couldn’t All she could really think about was that they should call Jude, but ould Jude think of Lexi then? What if Eva found out about this? Lexi had proood, and here

she was at a party again