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"I know you aren't. Some of the parties are fun, but you hate pretending to be friends with
people you don't like—and you don't like most of them. I know how much Xander pissed you
off the other night.”
"He's a jerk, but I can deal with that. If I stop hanging out with them, everything'll go back to
the way it was. Mia will just start up again. This way, she can't bother us.”
"It's not worth it if everything else is bothering you.”
"Nothing's bothering me." She sounded a little defensive.
"Yeah?" I asked meanly. "Because you're so in love with Aaron? Because you can't wait to
have sex with him again?”
She glared at me. "Have I mentioned you can be a huge bitch sometimes?”
I ignored that. "I'm just saying you've got enough shit to worry about without all this. You're
burning yourself out with all the compulsion you're using.”
"Rose!" She glanced anxiously around. "Be quiet!”
"But it's true. Using it all the time is going to screw with your head. For real.”
"Don't you think you're getting carried away?”
"What about Ms. Karp?”
Lissa's expression went very still. "What about her?”
"You. You're just like her.”
"No, I'm not!" Outrage flashed in those green eyes.
"She healed too.”
Hearing me talk about this shocked her. This topic had weighed us down for so long, but we'd
almost never spoken about it.
"That doesn't mean anything.”