Skin Nation Page 11
by Joni Bing
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It wasn't much longer after my apology to Lary that I was dressed in a white shirt, black shorts, and vest of animal fur. When Lary gave it to me from the trunk, I was so excited! I never saw anything like it before and thought about the hundreds of Xi points I'd get it if I wore it to school.
“It's not real,” Lary said to flatten my excitement.
“I don't care,” I kind of laughed.
I poked my arms through the holes in the vest to throw it over my shirt and walked out of the room where the boys, all dressed in black, stood waiting.
“What's going on?” I asked.
“We're going out.”
“Out? You guys?”
“All of us. You too,” Reno smiled.
That made me smile. Then, I frowned. “Wait, where?”
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