Dally POV
I tried spelling “beautiful” in numbers like Lily just taught me.
B. That was two. E... Five. A... One. So... Two. Five. One.
Then I stopped. Hell. How did you even spell beautiful?
Was it... B-E-A-U... Or B-E-U... No. That didn't feel right. I knew there was a sneaky extra vowel in there somewhere, but I had no clue what it was or where it went.
I couldn't even spell it with letters. How the hell was I supposed to spell it with numbers?
"Pretty," I muttered to myself. Close enough. That one I could spell.
"P"... I counted silently through the alphabet. "...Sixteen." Okay.
R. Now what the hell was R? I started counting again.
A...B...C...
R is 18. But by the time I got to it, I'd forgotten what number P was supposed to be.
So I started counting again to P, and by the
