PAPER TOWNS. MORNING

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PAPER TOWNS

To Julie Strauss-Gabel, without whom none of this could have become real

And after, when

we went outside to look at her finished lantern

from the road, I said I liked the way her light

shone through the face that flickered in the dark.

—“Jack O’Lantern, ” Katrina Vandenberg in Atlas

People say friends don’t destroy one another

What do they know about friends?

—“Game Shows Touch Our Lives, ” The Mountain Goats

MORNING

With a bag in each hand, I paused for a moment outside the van, staring at her. “Well, it was a helluva night, ” I said finally.

“Come here, ” she said, and I took a step forward. She hugged me, and the bags made it hard to hug her back, but if I dropped them I might wake someone. I could feel her on her tiptoes and then her mouth was right up against my ear and she said, very clearly, “I. Will. Miss. Hanging. Out. With. You. ”

“You don’t have to, ” I answered aloud. I tried to hide my disappointment. “If you don’t like them anymore, ” I said, “just hang out with me. My friends are actually, like, nice. ”

Her lips were so close to me that I could feel her smile. “I’m afraid it’s not possible, ” she whispered. She let go then, but kept looking at me, taking step after step backward. She raised her eyebrows finally, and smiled, and I believed the smile. I watched her climb up a tree and then lift herself onto the roof outside of her second-floor bedroom window. She jimmied her window open and crawled inside.

I walked through my unlocked front door, tiptoed through the kitchen to my bedroom, peeled off my jeans, threw them into a corner of the closet back near the window screen, downloaded the picture of Jase, and got into bed, my mind booming with the things I would say to her at school.

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