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Oh my, Klune is klune-ing...

“Okay!” he said, grinning. “Operation Turn Nick into an Extraordinary and Live Happily Ever After with Shadow Star in a Villa Off the Coast of Italy Where We Feed Each Other Grapes by Hand is underway!”

He paused, considering. “Might need to work on the name of the operation, but you get the idea. Let’s do this thing!”

The bell rang.

“After school gets out,” Nick said hastily.

Seth was at his locker, banging his head against it. Nick reached up and put his hand between Seth’s forehead and the locker.

“Hey,” Nick said. “Do you want me to kill him? Because I will.” He was very serious about this. He’d learned how on the internet before Dad had tightened the parental controls. He just needed to find some sharks.

“No. Then you’d go to jail. I’d visit you, but it wouldn’t be the same.”

SO many words
Too many words
Science-y words
Skim, skim, skim
All the many science-y words

I'll finish this
I promise
...
Eventually

Re-read

“I want to see you. First thing.”
“First thing?”
“First thing.”
Oh, my heart. “Okay. First thing.”
“I hope you sleep well.”
I’m never going to sleep again. “You too.”
“Goodnight, August.”
“Goodnight, August.”
He’s gone.
He’s gone, and I’m wide awake. And so alive. And my stomach’s fluttering. And… No, this isn’t happening. There is no way, that of all the people in the world, I’m actually crushing on…
myself.

"I'll leave you alone.”
“No. I don’t want that.”
“I don’t think it’s fair, the way I dumped all this on you. And⁠—”
“I like maths.” Shut up. “I mean, I like science.” Shut THE FUCK UP. “I would like to do maths and science with you.” S H U T U P! “I mean, help you. If I can. At all.”
“Would you really?”
“Please.” Did you just say please? “You know, if I can. If that would help. That I do maths.” Please stop.

I’m trying for some conversational lifeline and he throws out, “Would you come do maths with me tomorrow?”
Yes! But overriding my response is the truth. “I’m not good at maths.”
He palms that off with a light, “Then will you hold my Coke while I do it?”
I think I actually giggled. Shoot me now. “Uh, yeah. Sure. I’ll hold your Coke.” Fucking idiot.
I really want to be back in 1844, walking the streets with… me.

New author for me. I was really lookin' forward to this series and, so far, I am not disappointed! This is gonna be super fun!! 👍😁👍