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But even if she doesn’t realize what she’s doingit feels daain, and for a few seconds it dazesus

Damn

I lock eyes with Dylan and say, "How did this happen?"

"I’ on that As far as I can tell, she decided she wanted to invent her own cocktail, and she enlisted our friend Matt’s help" Ah Matt He’s one of Dylan’s activist friends I didn’t realize he was close to Nell, too Nell points to him sprawled out on the floor and adds, "This is what happens when you spend all day trying lots of different mixes of alcohol"

That seeh to rouse her, because she pulls back and places both her s tiot it I call it Newton’s Third Law"

"Uhh"

"Get it? Yours was Bad Decision And les again, and I scan e to try and re about I’d taken a physics course last year for h school, where I was concerned with keeping up to i her

"Is that the one about actions and reactions?"

"Exactly! Every action has an equal and" She pauses and ss, and one "Reaction Equal and opposite reaction Soaction" She gestures to an empty cup on the bar, then to her own drunken state "Reaction"

Then she does this little move that’s halfway between a fist pu adorable, it actually hurts Somewhere between my chest and my stomach there’s a knot that twists every tie pleasure pain of wanting her

"I don’t get it," the dude on the floor says "She’s been going on and on about that law for an hour, but for the life of et what it has to do with alcohol And soure it out"

Christ Eight shots I hope to God that Nell hasn’t had thatout of my embrace, and says, "Here Let me make you one"

She wobbles over to the table, where there’s half a dozen different kinds of liquor and at least that many mixers I follow and ask, "Any idea how er guy is still lying on the ground, silent I think he ht actually have passed out

"I’ll et started on the food, Dylan? That will help if we can get her to eat any of it"

"Sure Of course You sure you’ve got her?"

The look in Dylan’s eyes as she asks tellsbut a simple question I don’t knohat this is with Nell I don’t kno long it will last But I know I’ her over to anyone else to take care of No fucking way

"Yeah I’ve got her"

Chapter 13

Nell’s To-Do List

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