Page 18 (1/2)
He nodded "I kno it goes The heart wants what the heart wants, and so do the feet"
"Jonas, please stop talking about shoes or get out of here, but you’ve gotta pick at least one"
Jonas held up his hands "Oh, si conversation with your new friend--"
"Not My Friend"
"So just put down the glass of haterade"
"That’s wonderful," Betsy said, s it"
"That’s okay," Jonas said, "I did, too Auys--why are the three of you sitting up here aliant food court when none of you are eating , when you’ve barely been back in town ten hours"--nodding at Fred--"because of so at Madison "Is it super-secret mermaid stuff?"
No one seemed to kno to answer him until Betsy spoke up "No Super-secret vahtened, and then aded coants Jonas to be curious She had a very specific reason to tell him what she did and she did it in a very specific way She wants people I care about in this She wants them nearby Because that willMadison and Jonas out of trouble, I won’t have time to kick her undead ass all over the NEA break room Nice one, blondie Maybe you only look like a vapid dumbass
The irrepressible Jonas took it well, considering "You guys are va her head at Fred Then she nodded at Madison "Her mom And me"
"Is that why you’re chilly to the touch?" Fred asked She’d been wondering about it before, but in the ensuing exciterabbing her wrists in the break rooht point six body teh "I’m always cold Even in su the Arctic Ocean in January sometime," Fred snapped back, un back in his chair "Is there gonna be a mermaid-va up her drink, looking at it, and putting it down once more Fred estimated she’d drank about twenty milliliters at most A waste of a daiquiri "It was rilly horrible"
"Whaaaaaaat?" Jonas’s chair came forith a thunk "And I missed it? Dammit! I knew I should have tracked you down the first time you blew off my text The event of the century and I was stuck on the Red Line! So on?"
"I think it was a tie Then Fred stripped naked and swam in the Giant Ocean Tank and proved she was a mermaid because Betsy never watches TV"
"And where was I? Son of a bitch!" Jonas s hiuys Start over I wanna hear everything We’re wasting valuable tiout ever"
And because Fred and Betsy had the sah they didn’t know it (I still have questions and Madison still hasn’t told us everything), the ht that was a fine plan
"Does he do this a lot?" the vampire asked Fred noticed that, as she’d sucked all the liquid fro Madison’s all-but-untouched drink Hmmm Unnatural thirst? How often does she have to suck down blood? And when did she last do so? H and assuhed
Betsy’s sot one of those, too" She didn’t elaborate, but unless the va at Jonas with genuine fondness, and for that, Fred could alive the mind snatch
CHAPTER NINE
"So I ca--"
Fred winced Don’t do it Don’t Don’t SheAt last you’ll have answers So keep your piehole shut tight
"--but, like, they were late or whatever, or I was early, because--"
Jonas frowned at her "Don’t, Fred"
"--the ships weren’t there"
"Of course not!" Fred had held herself in as long as humanly (or Undersea Folk-ey) possible vzyl "That’s in the summer, as anyone within five hundred miles of Boston knows, it’s always in the su?"