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freaking out about the 'sleep potential' for paranormals."
    Jonesy got a puzzled look and Alex gave an indulgent chuckle, hitching up his glasses, which didn't belong on that face anymore. Alex was an ugly duckling that had become a swan. It was just like the fairy tale.
    " Jones, remember when we were talking about that drug they were going to shoot us up with to safeguard the mundanes when we slept?" He quickly looked at John and clarified, "Nulls excluded."
    John rolled his eyes. "Right, thanks. I was really unclear on that point."
    Alex smiled. "Anyway... it would stop the numbnuts of the world..."
    " Like Carson," Tiff interjected helpfully. Alex nodded, laughing.
    " From torching people in their sleep...or..." he shrugged his shoulders to his ears, momentarily looking like the Alex that I remembered from a year ago. Then he lowered them and the image was lost like smoke.
    " What about corpse-boy here?" Jonesy asked, jerking a thumb toward me.
    " Hey!" Tiff yelled.
    Jonesy leveled a stare at her. "Cool it, Tiff."
    Bry glowered. "Knock it off Jones or I'm gonna beat some manners into ya."
    " Try it, Weller."
    Bry stood.
    What was this shit? Testosterone Central?
    Jonesy stood as well, his emotional net still poised to snap. "I can't tell your sib to put a lid on it without you tearing another hole outta my ass?"
    Bry thought about it. "No. I can do it but you can't."
    Tiff said, "I forgive you, Jonesy." She gave a look to Bry. "Chill Bro, I'll live. I'm just easily offended by Jonesy. He's always peeing in all the corners and I don't wanna clean up his mess."
    Wow, did Tiff have a way with words.
    Jade had a stunned look and Sophie began again in the middle of the tangled conversation. "Anyway, there's a reason why they're beginning with us."
    She had a Tone, Mom would've spotted it a mile away. But her tone was different, edgy. I looked at Sophie, really looked at her. Beneath the careful artifice of her make-up lay circles under her eyes.
    I watched as Jonesy recognized it too and struggled to appear indifferent.
    Jade walked over to Sophie and knelt down in front of her, she was careful not to touch bare skin. She rubbed a jean-clad knee. "What's going on, Soph?"
    Sophie had been looking down at Jade but lifted her face to the group and all of us sucked in a breath at the standing tears in her turquoise eyes.
    " The police are after a rapist," she whispered into the room and every guy tensed, our collective breath trapped in our lungs, the girls' eyes like saucers.
    Jade recovered first, "That's terrible but, how does this affect you and what does it have to do with the drug?" she asked, trying to make sense of the pattern.
    Sophie looked at everyone and said something unexpected, "I'm really glad you guys came here today. I'm glad that you have my back," her eyes avoided Jonesy's and he stood, striding over to her.
    " I don't hate you, Soph," he said, more serious than I'd ever seen him.
    " I know," she whispered.
    He put a hand on her shoulder, so black against the zebra print of the shirt. "Is someone trying to hurt you, Soph?" he asked in a low voice. Every guy there heard the threat in his tone, the menace.
    " Buddy?" he said, not able to rein in the clench of his free hand that didn't touch her.
    Jade's eyes got wide and she looked at Jonesy. Somehow, even though she wasn't touching him he was leaking pretty good on her. I walked over and stood next to Jade where she still held onto Sophie's knee in a death-grip.
    She shook her head, her soft hair flying around her face. Jonesy unconsciously stroked her shoulder.
    " Then what?" he asked so softly everyone leaned in to hear.
    She raised her head again. "He's a teenager. He's going after the AP girls first, cuz it's easy. But the cops think he'll...." she covered her face with her hands and Jade instinctively pulled her hands away from Sophie's face.
    Jade's scream had me wrapped around her protectively in about three seconds.
    Everyone rushed to Jade and she stared