her spine. The fluorescent lights swam. For a terrible second she couldn't pull in air at all - just lay t
ad scattered
air with the irritated look of someone who had somewhere to be. He w
down and picked up a sheet of paper from the floor.
inted in clean black
lved. What replaced it was some
s best friend. And from the look on his face r
carried down the empty hallway without
forbidden, explosive. Now here it was again, and this time she could feel the weight of it, th
She didn't argue. S
had expected flinching, and
g sure she watched every second of it, and dropped iwith trash," he
rash can. Then back to him.
riated him more tha
until his face was inches from hers. He smelled of expensive aftershave and
away from Han
Excuse me," she said, her voic
ked genuinely thrown. Like t
sharp-eyed behind her glasses, fixed Dylon with a wi
shoulder into Abigail's bruised a
ieved the crumpled ball of paper, and smoothed it methodi
into the
e. The silence had a texture to it - thick an
extbook against the wrinkled paper until the creases disapp
o class since she was twelve years old. Whatever else this
up her pen,
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