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id across the table, my eyes still wide from th

his." My voice came out less shaky than I was at the moment. "You del

is face which made it obvious that h

aid pleasantly, a smile tugging boldly at

m the one holding yours now, Miss Reid. You're

sight. I wanted to grab him, slam his face into the desk

gn it and get thi

. I pressed it into the paper harder than neces

e pen down and st

t the door and walked steadily toward it, tell

y gaze still focused on the door I was a

his voice calm and infuriatingly level

d, I knew what he was talkin

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ed and w

ed as I really couldn't trust my shaky legs at the moment. I

noticed before, without a name plat

o actually look up at him and he looked down at me too with that same unreadable exp

ught. Of course i

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ound him and

stairway light flickering. I remember my jaw aching so bad j

lea

ck actually

o much force that it would ha

her bed, laptop open

what

pped my face first onto

thing I loved most about Hori. She w

y pillow and my jaw still aching and the image of

e to share a house

face further i

y there in the dark thinking in circles until exhaustion won and pulled me

ing my eyes, the exhaustio

ell

ot to be s

open. The room was bright

ce sounding as hoarse a

with Kyrian Ma

she was checking something. "What

inging wide open. "How di

main hall." She paused again. "It's not just m

ll, my brain still

u back," I sai

tapping my feet in an att

the school official website that had been u

neutral as I stared at the notificati

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and little profile pictures of the cast members arranged in a grid. I scrolled past all

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, trying to guess who-among the girls I s

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d it again to confirm if I r

rooms and noticed the same pattern, a

hand and the realization that I was going to be sleepin

like I was anticipating it or anything, If

t I needed. I was not going to be one of those people who show

banner with THE PLAYBOOK SHOW boldly written on it like it

rably less than the people expected which

r and knocked to confirm

response, so I

one else had been here, just a clean, quiet room w

hat I hadn't even rea

meant I had time to settle in an

bat

window-obviously non-negotiable, the windo

artment. My mum always said that you could tell everyth

handle and flun

ddox half naked, hair damp, water still o

to be fucking