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  • Chapter 6 LUCY I don’t know how I am going to last a whole school day if I can’t even last a half of one. I mean it was everything ...
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  • "Seth, man, why are you hanging out with that chick?" says James. I turn around and see all my friends staring at me, probably wanting to start the basketball game ...
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  • "I guess I’m just saying..." Seth starts. He doesn’t know what he was going to say because I caught him on his bluff. Now what are you going to do ...
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  • “Leave em’. Just leave your keys here and Niles will take care of your car and the rest of your things,” she explained. Elle nodded and did as she was ...
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  • She looped her fingers around and around his soft curls, pulling gently. He smiled blithely, head in her lap. A gentle summery sun shone down on their small refuge, an ...
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  • Elle didn’t have any time to mourn over her mother’s death before moving in with her Aunt Kate three hours west. She simply packed her bags and drove as soon ...
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  • I'm spent. So damn exhausted. My spine is in dire need of an overweight toddler to dance on it -- think I could find one in some dingy massage parlor ...
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  • "My God - what is this place?" "It's a CD store - it's a store that sells CDs." "What's a CD?" "It's like, music used to be stored on things, ...
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  • I had wipped the dirt off and wrapped it back up and put it in my plastic bag. I ate it while I sat on the bench, but I was ...
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  • I never understood how gravity seemed to just leave him be. How he could lean farther than Michael Jackson and still keep a rigid form. How he made time slow ...
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