You better get over here with my car,โ Grandad says. โBefore I call the cops and tell them you stole it.โ โSorry,โ I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. โWait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that Iโd like to see.
Holly Blackin her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
Holly BlackNevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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