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"Sure," Zoe drew the word out "Good luck with that"

I closed the locker door and then hitchedup on my shoulder "What are you up to?"

She lifted a shoulder "Need to study, but I’ to just sit on the couch and hed as we headed down the hall toward the parking lot Zoe’s parents, both of them, had died before the invasion in some kind of freak plane accident, so she had been shipped off to live with her uncle, as never home I only saw him once from a distance They used to live closer to DC, but had ended up here after everything

"So, I only heard bits and pieces about your trip with Heidi to that club" Zoe caught the door, holding it open as we stepped out into the bright afternoon sun "She was telling uys were there?"

I pulledand slid the toward the parking lot "Yeah, it ild I’ve never seen anything like that At all"

"There’s a reason why Heidi didn’t ask uys I would’ve told her no"

"I couldn’t tell her no She’s been going there by herself for a while now, and I just wanted to, you know, for her not to be alone" I stepped around a couple who looked seconds away fro at each other "I didn’t even get a chance to ed uy there"

Groaning, I rolled my eyes as we climbed the suy there as a couy who showed up at your house?" When I nodded, she let out a lohistle "I bet your mom freaked"

"You have no idea," I muttered dryly Out of all ical one, the calmest one There was very little we kept fro

Honestly, she should’ve been at the club Friday night She would’ve made sure I didn’t end up in that hidey-hole with Luc "So, I didn’t tell anyone else this, but when he showed up at un on hih

"Yep" I kept otten to school super-early thatlot, near the football field

"Wow," she said, laughing again From the field, a whistle blew "What did he do?"

"He melted the barrel" I shivered at the reminder To have that kind of unchecked poas unbelievable

"Thatwas all he did?" Zoe reached the door of her car

"I think that was enough" Of course that wasn’t all that Luc had done "He actually"

"What?"

My cheeks started to burn I wanted to tell her--tell so so about it That I cared about it

I wasn’t thinking about the non-kiss Well, except for last night, when I couldn’t sleep, and the night before that

Zoe nudgeda Disabler," I said instead, shoving thoughts of kissing aside "I don’t think he’s registered"

Leaning against the back door of her car, Zoe crossed her aristered"

"Yeah"

She was quiet for a "