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She sniffs a laugh. “I’m really tired. I’m going to bed.”
“Night Bridge,” Henry calls.
Beej nods his chin at her, watches her walk out of the room, waiting til she’s out of earshot.
“I think you hurt her feelings,” he tells me.
“What?” I scoff. “No, I didn’t.”
“She went weird.”
I roll my eyes at him. “She did not.”
He nods back at me. “She did.”
I give him a look. “When?”
“When you said Tausie might be our maid of honour.”
Our. Cute. I try not to smile at him for that because I don’t like it when he takes Bridget’s side over mine.
I let out a puff of air to make sure he knows I’m annoyed at him, and he stares over at me, smiling a quiet, steady smile that seems smug even though he hasn’t said a word. I can’t wait to have him make that face at me forever.
I get up and wander into my sister’s room.
“Hey you big, fat cow—” I climb into her bed. “I need to talk to you about something.”
She doesn’t roll over.
Rude.
“Listen, even though you dress like a tree and have the stylistic sensibilities of, like, a blind child, you’d still be the best maid of honour in the world…”
She doesn’t say anything.
I growl at the back of my throat. “Don’t make me beg.”
I look over at her. “Bridget, don’t be rude—” Give her a shove.
Her body moves around limply.
I shake her again. “Bridget?”
Nothing.
My chest goes tight instantly.
I shake her more.
“Bridget?!” I yell.
I roll her over and the way her body moves is bad.
Flops.
Her mouth falls open a little.
Slowly, carefully, feeling like I’m being tricked somehow, I lower my ear to her mouth and listen.
