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I would love to say I was super cool and when Elizabeth curled up with her head on my shoulder I totally slept super peacefully like I was finally complete and everything was right in the world. But I didn’t sleep. Not really.
I’d drift off for a few minutes, then wake up suddenly, expecting my mom to come into the room screaming at me for falling asleep with a girl. Once I was awake enough to know my mom was definitely not going to come storming into Eric’s house since she had no idea how to get to Beville, let alone which house Eric lived in, I’d fall back asleep. Then I’d wake up thinking Eric was going to come barging in with some coy remark about the follies of youth. Then I’d drift off again and think shadows were coming to steal Elizabeth away from me.
But Elizabeth slept, her
