CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWOI WATCH TOBIAS’S face carefully as we walk to the dining hall, searching for any sign of disappointment. We spent the two hours lying on his bed, talking and kissing and eventually dozing until we heard shouts in the hallway—people on their way to the banquet. If anything, he seems lighter now than he was before. He smiles more, anyway. When we reach the entrance, we separate. I go in first, and run to the table I share with Will and Christina. He enters second, a minute later, and sits down next to Zeke, who hands him a dark bottle. He waves it away. “Where did you go?” asks Christina. “Everyone else went back to the dormitory.” “I just wandered around,” I say. “I was too nervous to talk to everyone else about it.” “You have no reason to be nervous,” Christina says,
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