"Yet," Addison said, and put the lollipop back in her mouth like she'd made a threat instead of a promise.
The graft did something warm and stupid in my chest, and I decided not to examine it.
Lunch broke apart the way our meals always did now, in stages, with a lot of arguing. Jordan required physical assistance to leave his chair, which Belle refused to provide, which meant Javier ended up hauling him upright while explaining recovery breathing that Jordan absolutely did not want to hear. Hikaru vanished between one blink and the next, the way she did, there and then gone, her tray already returned to the rack like she'd never been sitting three feet from me at all. Blair collected her cracked water bottle and her leather jacket and left without saying goodbye, which for Blair counted as an emotionally generous farewell.
