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“It was time for the mirror pep talk.
“Okay, Maggie,” I said to myself after my shower, wiping the steam off the medicine cabinet.
“You could eat these kids for breakfast. You won’t, though, because that would be cannibalistic and
wrong.”
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“He’s a delinquent!” I yelled out to my parents. “He was arrested for shoplifting last year!”
No response.
“I just want you to know that I’m going to be hanging out with someone who has a criminal
record!” I cried.
“Let’s not forget that our family can never reenter Luxembourg without being arrested!” my dad
yelled back.
Touché.”
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“So, Harold. Friend, pal, chum.” Roux folded her hands on top of the desk. “Are you going to
buzz us in or not?”
“Go on up, miss,” Harold said, waving us through the lobby and toward the elevators.
“Harold, you’re a gem. A pristine gem honed over years of trial and fire.”
“That’s how I would describe my job, too,” Harold replied.”
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“Hey,” he said, stopping in front of me. “As much fun as it is watching you elbow small children
out of your way while clinging to a makeshift wall …”
“That kid was hogging all the space!” I huffed. “He had it coming!”
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“You know how sometimes you realize you’re doing or saying the wrong thing, but you just can’t
stop yourself? You can literally hear the words coming out of your mouth and you just want to shove
them back in because the real you, the good you, would never want to be this way, but you just keep
going?”
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“Hey,” Jesse said. “You guys get any sleep?”
Roux just held up her massive coffee cup. “Does this answer your question?”
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“I unzipped my duffel bag and started to rifle through it. “What the hell is all that?” Jesse asked.
“A diamond core drill,” I replied. “It can go through cobalt and it lets me use this.” I pulled out a
tiny scope camera that had a monitor attached to it. “This lets me see where the grooves are in the
lock. Each groove corresponds to a number on the combination and I just have to line them up.”
Jesse and Roux looked at me like I was speaking Martian. “Where do you even get this stuff?”
“Sweet Sixteen present from my parents.”
Roux shook her head. “I got a Fabergé egg. What a ripoff.”
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“This just means so much to me!I'd like to thank all the little people I crushed on my way to the top”
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“I told you, I just think we should slow down. I mean, we haven’t even had a real date yet and I
—”
“Ohhhh.” Jesse nodded to himself. “That’s what this is. I get it.”
“What?”
“First date. Girls like dates. I’m such an idiot, I should have thought of that.”
This was backfiring spectacularly.”
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“But that was last year,” I protested as we walked through school on Tuesday, three days before
Halloween. “I’m serious, you know how people are. They forget about things.”
“Oh, really?” Roux said, then turned and smiled at a brunette passing us. “Hey, Julia, what’s up?
How are things?”
“Slut,” Julia responded, and kept walking.
Roux just looked back at me knowingly. “You were saying?”
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“Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing.”
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“You could eat these kids for breakfast. You won't, though, because that would be cannibalistic and wrong.”
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“That's the second rule of being a spy: Be beige. Be beiger than beige. Be as average as possible. Be like the cashiers in your grocery store. Could you describe them? Chances are, no. Did you see them? Of course. Do you know their names, even if they were wearing name tags? Probably not. It's like that.”
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“The first rule of being a spy: Listen. Our family friend Angelo always says that a good spy never asks questions, that people will always tell you what you need to know.”
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