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"Hate to see him go, hate to watch him leave," he mumbles. "It's all terrible."
August leans back looking sideways at Wes, as he dedicates himself to picking at the label on his beer, and emanating an air of abject misery.
"Wes," August says. "Have you ever heard of a hairy frog?"
Wes eyes her with suspicion. "Is that, like... a sex act?"

"- She's not exactly.. available."
"I see," her mom says. "Well, you know what my policy is."
"Never go to a second location with someone unless you checked their trunk for weapons first," August monotones.
"You can mock it all you want, but I've never been murdered."

"What kind of safeword is a waffle-cone, anyway?"

//

"Oh yeah, classic getting-to-know-you conversation," Myla says from across the hall. "What kind of music do you like? Where are you from? Do you now or have you ever had crabs?"
"You just described our first date, verbatim," Niko points out.

She says she loved every girl like summer: bright and warm and fleeting, never too deep because she'd be gone soon.

"I can-t decide if I'm impressed or horrified."
"My favourite emotional place," Myla says. "That's where horny lives."

"Remember the rules. Number one-"
"Us versus everyone."
"And number two-"
"If they're gonna kill you, get their DNA under your fingernails."