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( Nobody ever fucks with her. )

( She likes to pull on his chest hair sometimes, just for the sound he makes when she does. )

( He didn't see Respa at all the next day, and what was worse was that this left him open to Romy finding him. )

( 'You made friends with him?!' Romy screeched, hands like a flock of panicking birds around his head. )

( For once, Ryan felt alert as he took his homeroom seat. )

( Blood was leaking from Jeffrey Bergstrom's nose. )

( It was lunch period when Respa approached him the next day. )

( Ryan sometimes wished he'd been born in January, or even July. )

( His fever was coming down the next day, but not enough that Ryan could go back to school, and so Mrs. Allen was called in again to park herself on the couch and rarely move. )

( Dillon was like a hawk, circling Ryan in wide, far-flung arcs during recess as he watched him intently. )

( It was the third time Miss Vaughn called his name during attendance that Ryan finally answered. )

( INTERVIEWER: Are you ready to continue, Ryan? )

( AUDIO TRANSCRIPT : SESSION #1 )

It's that time of year again! NaNoWriMo 2009, go go go

( When the first knock at the door sounded, Ryan was already running. )

( Sure, he saw Horace’s point…that wasn’t stopping him from tying his shoelaces at a quarter to midnight. )

( He never hated hospitals, really. )

( The 'monkey suit' was pretty slick, he had to admit. )

This chapter de-italicized for your pleasure.

( 'Welcome to your new home, Class of Oh Two,' the van driver chuckled, wiping a hairy hand across his nose as he laughed. )

( When Respa awoke the next morning, there was a commotion coming from Horace’s bedroom. )

( The downside of crashing at Horace’s place, he discovered that night, was that when Shaun stayed the night, the two of them were fairly noisy—especially Shaun. )