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A Geek girl walked out onstage swinging her purse in a circle and su and a white dress and when she started telling boys in the front row that a blow job would cost them a sandwich, Lucy couldn’t control herself She kneho it was

"Hooker Hilary!" Lucy said, way too loud

Bart cringed with a laugh "Oh, boy We got a live one"

Lucy cackled She knew itthe crowd on this one, but Hilary deserved it Saotten his comeuppance for what he’d done, but soet off, unscathed A laugh at her expense was the least Lucy could do

Hilary stood up in a huff, like Bobby did She was in the front roith a bunch of Pretty Ones She was livid

"I refuse to sit through this trash!" she shrieked

"Then get the hell out!" Lucy shouted at her, and others in the crowd echoed her

Hilary glared at Lucy with pure hatred Lucy was unbothered

"What are you looking at?" Lucy said, leaning forward in her seat

Hilary sneered at Lucy, then widened her gaze to all the kids shouting at her She looked uncharictaristically rattled Lucy wasn’t sure she had seen her blush before She started pushing through her row in a huff A string of Pretty Ones trailed her As they reached the aisle and hurried for the exit, people whistled at them and shouted catcalls They looked miserable, but Lucy didn’t feel an ounce of coirls This was the life they’d chosen If they didn’t like what it had amounted to, then too bad

"You’re a wild one," Bart said with a grin

Lucy fixed Bart with a charged stare

"What?" he said

Nobody had ever said that to her before And she liked it She planted a heavy kiss on him

"Yee-ha!" soood idea who it was Raunch "Get it on, girl!"

Lucy laughed through her tongue dance with Bart Her whole gangher now, maybe others too It was a rush She pushed Bart down in his seat, then hopped over the ar him She straddled hi She threw up a fist

"WHOO!" Lucy shouted back They threw up fists and cheered for her while the play continued on stage

Lucy leaned down and kissed Bart more He couldn’t have been happier Theyon a show for everybody around, but she was tired of being the prude all the ti a PDA marathon all over the school, so why should she hold herself back?

When the play ended and the lights caot up from their seats and started to mill about the auditorium Lucy and Bart didn’t move They were in their own little world She wanted to stay close to hie lights sparkled in his eyes He smiled his perfect smile She wanted him It was decided in a moment Naturally Just like Violent had said it would be Bart was the one He’d be her first

Someone whispered in her ear

"Make him wait"

Lucy turned and looked over to see Violent Alreadyon She couldn’t see Violent’s face It made her anxious She didn’t understand

"What do you want to do now?" Bart said

Lucy looked back at Bart He had a rin

"Uh …"

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WILL WOKE UP WITH ANOTHER CRUEL HEADACHE He felt like so his face with a rake It probably wasn’t the best idea to mix booze with his medication, but he wasn’t dead yet It had been three weeks of this, sos, it felt like it had been three years Each night, once the alcohol hit his systebros with Gates was a full-time job

With bleary eyes, Will lifted his head and charted his surroundings He was on his back, on the floor in front of Gates’s school bus All around him was a terrible mess It wasn’t just the wrecked bus stuck in the wall, or the rubble around it, it was the week’s worth of party waste that littered the floor Food was spilled everywhere Twinkies with footprints in them Cold cuts that had been thrown on the wall and had stuck there A huge puddle of arette butts Dirty dishes covered in a brown crust ofA soda-soaked pair of boxer shorts Crushed beer cans and plastic party cups were everywhere A knocked-over television played a porno, and there were two ga A series of croquet wickets were duct-taped to the floor, with nated one corner of the roolass bottles when they were done with the bottles had bored Gates pretty quickly and he’d encouraged the gang to start destroying other things In addition to the piled-up broken glass, the s chair, bent lacrosse sticks, a bashed-up bicycle with slashed tires, and a pinball machine that had been set on fire