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Chapter 1

April

“April, wake up now Your butt is on the Internet” Sid’s panicked voice cut through layers of fuzzy sleep to reach me

I groaned and buried my head under ot out of bed on ti any tactic necessary, short of ice cubes I had no idea she’d resort to nonsense phrases

“Sid, go away”

Her hand was onme “No, seriously, you need to see this”

“Don’t touch me,” I mumbled “I can sleep five more minutes”

“No, you can’t April, there is a sex video from Comic-Con and I’m pretty sure you’re in it”

I sat up, blinking, my vision blurry “What the what?”

I’d gotten next to no sleep over the weekend, and with all the oversti and debauchery, I was flat as a pancake this , exhausted

And I had to start my new position at Draco Multimedia today

My eyes narrowed, cutting toa joke, but Sid would never get so elaborate Nor would she ever frivolously use the S-E-X word

“Okay, back off and speak slowly It’s before coffee o’clock”

Sid sighed, obviously frustrated withfor Co up I kept closing it right away because—icky—ants to see that? But one tiirl dressed up in what looked like my elf costume—the one you borrowed” Her voice was shrill like she was excited or panicked Al me up

I swung a foot out of bed, still half asleep as her words rushed over me like a flash flood There was this sick sensation in the pit ofto do with h weekend

“Please tell ”