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Hey assholes,” I say, heading them off at the pass. “This is my date. Cleo. Go away.”
“We aren’t going away,” Shane Miller, superstar actor with hair that stands up on its own, says. “Him, I’m Shane. So, you’re Elijah’s date?” He mumbles into his tumbler as he takes a sip of whiskey. “You know he has all twenty of his original fingers and toes, right?”
“Oh yeah,” she says without missing a beat. “His digits are legit.”
“Have you seen how his shoes fit his feet?” Nico Todd says, yawning. “Exactly the right size.”
“Oh, is this a comedy bit?” Cleo is way too delighted, and I have no idea how she got that it’s a bit already.
They aren’t that funny.
They aren’t funny at all.
… “I like how both of his eyes are on the front of his face,” she says as I take her hand and lead her away from those jackals.
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