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Judg

“First of all, you’re at this party too Secondly, I don’t need anyone to take care ofthat since I was child Thirdly—”

“If that’s true, then why are you here?”

“I don’t have to answer to you” I bent down to grabanother word, Iin front of ne

“Thirdly?” he questioned

“What?”

“Your last decree before I interrupted you?”

Shit, I’d forgotten “Thirdly, you aren’tout the door I was sure I heard him snicker, but I was proud of myself

When Ito each other Cleo was texting on her phone

“Guys?”

“Felicity!” Cleo gasped and grabbed on to o?”

“What do you mean?” It felt like I had just seen them

“Reroup? But e looked for you, and we didn’t see you in the croe thought you’d left,” she replied

“No I thought she left, you thought she’d been kidnapped and stuffed into a suitcase,” Mark joked, looking back up the stairs and then to me “What happened up there?”

“I was just looking around,” I lied again, this time with a smile, and slipped my shoes back on “You know me I was able to sniff out the library and curl up to read Dickens If it weren’t for the clock chi, I wouldn’t have come down”