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“Hey, Ryan?”
“Mhmm?
“…Remind me why I had that milkshake?” Aleda was in pain. After the cheeseburger, fries, an..
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If asked later, Aleda would not have been able to say which part was harder. The confrontation and subsequent arguments with her father were gut-wrenc..
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It turned out that their incident at lunch earned them detention for the next two Saturdays—for disrupting lunch and for leaving their designate..
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Detention passed slowly.
So did the following week, although dinner with Ryan and a nighttime walk through a theoretically closed park made things i..
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There were tests. There were papers, too, and lab reports, and projects for nearly every class. If Aleda had thought that the weeks before Thanksgivin..
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They looked at Nate appraisingly. Ryan had laid him across the back seat, careful of his broken leg, and now he was slowly coming to.
“Hey, Rya..
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“So…”
Talia trailed off, grinning at her in her usual way.
“…Buttons?” Aleda finished for her. It was somethin..
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Something was blaring in Aleda’s ears and she was not pleased. Not pleased at all. When ignoring it didn’t make the cacophony go bother so..
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She fell asleep as the sun set.
Even a hunter can’t stay awake forever, and her day had been a long one. She felt like she had been awake fore..
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