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God, I hated her, and hated being her happy-go-lucky roommate
Whichher that much easier
“What are you reading?” Penny peered ather in bed with her feet up on the wall I hated how she never wore socks She had such gross feet
“It’s a novel called The Devil in the White City Ever heard of it?”
She shook her head “Another one of your murder books?”
I sat up straight and glared at her “It’s not just some murder book It’s about one of the best killers of all time Dr H H Hols, and it’s suspected he killed upwards of two hundred people”
Penny sighed and rolled her eyes “You’re obsessed”
She had a point I shrugged and went back to reading “What about you? Studying again?”
“We’re not all freakish geniuses Seriously, Alice, what are you doing at Blackwoods? Couldn’t you have gone anywhere?”
Absolutely, I wanted to say, but couldn’t I only sot in here and they gave me a sweet scholarship, so here I am”
“Always theto tell me about your family and all that stuff? Whenever I ask, you always pretend like they were ruesome way”
“One of these days, I’ll take you to their burial plots The headstones are in the shape of an axe, since each of thehbor”
“And yet you survived to tell the tale”
“I wasn’t home at the time”
“Right, of course”
We laughed together and Penny went back to studying, and I went back to pretending to read
But really, I atching her
My Penny My first victim
I wasn’t a serial killer or whatever Probably a psychopath, though Maeve said it wasn’t such a bad thing, really It just s the way normal people did
It
Maeve said Penny was iirl caring about nor around, blind and lost and dumb
I was a wolf That’s what Maeve said, anyway
Penny’s phone rang She glanced down at the screen and made a face
“Is it hier
She glanced over and shrugged “I don’t know Number’s blocked”
“Definitely him You should answer”
“I’m not in the mood”
“Come on Kaspar Baskin is obsessed with you and you don’t see “What I’d give to ride that boy’s big, thick—”
“Okay, okay, enough, I don’t need the details”
“Cock Big thick cock Seriously Penny, you’re such a prude”
She rolled her eyes Her phone began to buzz again She silenced it and turned it off