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“Told you so,” Maz says.
“Help me stand up,” I say.
I offer both hands and Maz and Birdie pull me to my feet.
“The bomb threat isn’t real,” I say. “Cullen and Archer told me that. Obviously we’ll be locked down until the entire search is done. But it should be finished soon. There’s zero threat of danger here.”
“That’s a lie,” Maz say.
“Zero threat of danger from a bomb,” I correct myself.
“Why did they tell you?” Birdie asks.
“So I wouldn’t worry.”
“Did they call it in?” she asks.
“I’m not really sure,” I say. “They told me the truth, then snuck me back here. They said they’d be back later to tell me more.”
Maz gets closer to me and smells me. “You smell like hot guy sex.”
“I wish they could bottle that up,” Birdie says. “I’d spray that all over me day and night.”
“This whole thing is getting more confusing by the second,” I say. “I don’t know how much more I can take. How much more I can wait around. It feels dangerous. And it’s stupid that I don’t know the truth of everything. I have no chance to figure myself out. Or even defend myself.”
“Whoa, you flipped a switch,” Maz says.
“Not at all. I need the truth.”
“What about Archer?” Birdie asks.
“Cullen says he’ll protect me,” I say.
“Then you start a war,” Maz says. “The Amatti family against the Doyle family? That will ripple through everyone here, Jaci. Every family will be touched by that kind of war. Including all of us on campus, right here.”
“I need to know who my family is!” I yell. “I need to know my real last name! I need to know what I’m anHeirof!”
They both don’t say anything to me.
No encouraging words.
Birdie disappears for a second and returns with a bottle of vodka.
“Want to get drunk?” she asks me.
“Get the buzzes going,” I say. “I’ll be right back.”
I walk to the bathroom but I don’t have to pee.
I pop azazainto my mouth and swallow it without water.
I need to fully relax.
There’s too much happening.
The danger and pleasure, the mystery and…everything.
Back in the main part of the dorm we take turns drinking and telling stories to one another.
