I grab a chair. "I don't mean to pry," I say, "but we're in a hospital. You sure you're fine?"
She sighs heavily. "No getting anything past you, huh?"
"I also often notice when water is wet. I have a keen detective's mind like that.
His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
Holly BlackIt's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds.
"Don't," I warn him.
He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide.
"Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling."
I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of water."
He tries to say something. Brown powder dusts his shirt.
"Also," I tell him, "that's decaf.
I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises me, but I don't think I'm so okay with it after all. Somewhere along the line I made a dark bargain with the universe without ever really being aware of it--a bargain that if I was allowed to see her, even if we never spoke, then I could live with that. And now a week without her has swallowed up all of my rational thinking. I feel like a junkie, sick for my next fix and not sure when it will come.
Holly BlackJones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
Holly BlackYou can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work.
Holly BlackTag: planning
Cassel, she said, you want to know how to be the most charming guy anyone's ever met? Remind them of their favorite person. Everyone's favorite person is their own damn self.
Holly BlackThere's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe
Holly BlackTag: fiction black-heart
She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
Holly BlackIf you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location.
Holly BlackTag: black-heart
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