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I hoped my smile hadn’t faltered too much as I relifted the corners of my mouth while also trying to telepathically communicate to Tiffany then to Mart that help was behind me. Mart darted her eyes quickly to the corner of the room that I couldn’t yet see. So Scott was there. I let out a long slow breath, hoping he couldn’t see me either, and turned back into the kitchen.
“I brought you some flowers from Elle,” I stressed Elle’s name a bit. Maybe Mart would pick up on the fact that our friends were here. “I’ll just put them in water.” I walked the few feet to the the sink and reached for the cabinet above the sink. I took two glasses out of the cabinet and turned the water on to fill one glass while I set the other in the window sill and shaped my fingers like a g*n against the glass
