hush

Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" I asked."If I did?""I don't like it."He grinned. "It stays, Angel.

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!"Patch grinned, "I can fly.

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!

Don't make me regret this," I said, breathless."You haven't regretted me once.

Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I__ a boy. Like Dorian Gray.___orian who?__ sighed. __ust think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.___ure thing, Gumdrop.__ grimaced. __ take that back. Let__ stick with Grey.

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

No! Please no," she feels the cool metalof the handcuffs again. "Please, I'mMadison, I'm Madison!"Her arms lock into place above her head.She jerks her body, pain snapping at hermuscles."You can stay like this for the day." Herises from the bed, bends down, andblows out the candles on her birthdaycake. "Night, night, Rosie.""No!"He opens the door, letting a stream ofsunlight into the room."Please don't leave me here, please!"And then the door closes, and thesunlight is gone.