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LukeShe walked into the restaurant, and I didn’t recognize her for a split second. The bandage around her head was gone. And she had a miniature male version of herself clamped onto her right hand. He was chattering nonstop, and there was a genuine smile on her face as she listened to him. It was the smile that threw me. At that moment, she was no longer the guarded, disconnected person I barely noticed at school. The smile quickly disappeared when she saw me. A solemn look replaced the smile, followed by a soldier-like march to my table. In nervous anticipation, I stood up a little too fast, which caused my chair to fall over and all the condiments on the table to rollick around. Disgusted with myself, I picked up the bloody chair. This bumbling idiot routine was getting old.She steadied the ketchup bottle and said hello when she reached the table. She introduced her mini-me, who had the giggles over my toppled chair and quaking condiments. I handed over her backpack, and she opene

Landry“Landry, why are you unpacking? We’ll be leaving soon. This is a complete boondoggle. You know, just once, I’d like some magic fingers in my motel room,” James announced as she strode into my room. “And why are we surveilling some teenager?” James asked as she lounged on one of the beds.I responded as I unpacked my suitcase and toiletries. “Come on. You saw the video. That girl survived an exploding tornado. And magic fingers? What is this, 1970 at the local pay-and-romp hotel?”She stuck out her tongue at me, and I laughed. James wasn’t being entirely unreasonable; however, I didn’t feel like having this conversation again. We were here, and we had a job to do. I couldn’t make her understand why I was dying to be here without revealing that I had already met the girl she was complaining about. That conversation would eventually happen, but I was stupidly putting it off until I had what would probably turn out to be useless information. I closed the door to the bathroom and tu