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using an ATM, or working as a bank manager.
    making this argument but Demos just gives me this look, like he’s thinking I found this out by accident too, talking to Harvey one day. He is a mine about permanently freezing me into a statue. ‘Soon,’ he answers. ‘We’re go-of information.
    ing to head down to San Diego tomorrow.’
    Inside the bus, Nate is with Ryder and they are playing on his Wii and
    ‘Oooh, are we going to spy on the Unit some more?’ Nate asks, shooting I don’t need to ask or look to know that Ryder is whipping Nate’s ass.
    me a look, and I don’t need to be a mind-reader to appreciate exactly what Nate leaps up when he sees me. ‘You went shopping without me?’ he he’s thinking.
    squeals. ‘That’s so unfair. What did you buy? Let me see!’
    He’s thinking hot men in uniform. Now I am too.
    He is like a puppy that needs a pee but I drop the bag on the sofa and
    ‘You two!’ Alicia suddenly says from behind me.
    take out the box containing my new shoes that feel like they’re made from I whip around. I hadn’t heard her coming, probably because the images baby bunnies but thankfully aren’t because that would be gross as well as from Nate’s head were so overwhelming that everything else was blanked out.
    making them exceedingly hard to clean.
    ‘Need we remind you that the Unit is the enemy?’ she says. ‘Not some
    ‘You so promised you’d take me shopping next time,’ Nate says, pouting boy band for you to dribble over.’
    at me. ‘I’m totally telling your dad that you stole his credit card.’
    ‘I’m not dribbling!’ Nate protests.
    ‘I did not steal his credit card,’ I say, clutching the shoes to my chest.
    He is dribbling. But anyone with eyes would understand and forgive
    ‘You stole the PIN number from his head. Same difference,’ Nate says him that. The Unit might be out to get us but that doesn’t change the fact snatching for my shoes.
    that they’re also very buff and two of them in particular are beyond buff –
    ‘ Not the same difference and my father is rich – he won’t notice four indeed they occupy a whole new federation of hotness. They are almost as hundred dollars.’
    hot as me. Only in a man way.
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    ‘Suki,’ Alicia says, rolling her eyes.
    at them, and Amber can see people’s auras, which are apparently big balls of
    ‘ What? ’ I protest. ‘They are cute.’
    light. But Demos – he can freeze people with just a single look. He can stop Demos makes a funny shape with his mouth as if he’s just eaten a truck-people from thinking, from moving – even from feeling. And that’s why the load of wasabi.
    Unit want him so much. He’s what Ryder calls the motherlode .
    ‘Suki, these men would kill you as soon as look at you. Let’s see how cute Sometimes I wonder if Demos did something to my head to convince you find them when they’re sticking a gun to your head and threatening to me to join his group of psys, which is what the Unit calls us, because I’m blow your brains out.’ He pauses, giving me his flat-eyed stare, ‘or worse.’
    not sure how else he got me to agree to live on this bus with no closet space, Even the images in Nate’s head detour at this point out of the bedroom but here I am.
    and somewhere much more emo. The room falls silent. Ryder pauses the It was Amber who found me. I was shopping and her and Demos cor-game and throws the controller onto the sofa. Amber has appeared from nered me in a changing room. Amber can spot a psy a mile away just by somewhere and she drops onto the sofa next to Ryder and rests her head on scanning auras. I f you’d told me that was possible before I would have his shoulder. Normally listening in on those two is like listening to a Taylor thought you were crazy but I’ve seen her do it – with Nate – so I know it’s Swift album playing on repeat, but now they’re both subdued. Right now true. At first I thought Demos and Amber were whacko people trying to