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predicted, Craig scowled. “It’s Friday night!” he protested. “You’re not allowed to get your geek on on Friday night. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s against the law. Or it should be, if it isn’t.”
    He was too much. I opened my mouth to retort, but was interrupted by a familiar whirlwind of red hair, red lips, and red fingernails bursting in between us. Oh great. My day was getting better and better.
    “What’s against the law?” Suzy, my second cousin, demanded, flashing a big smile in Craig’s direction and ignoring me completely. You’d think that since we were distantly related, not to mention the fact that she had a boyfriend of her own, she’d consider it bad form to flirt with mine. But evidently she didn’t get the Miss Manners memo on that one. And Craig, being Craig, used her adoration to his advantage.
    “Skye here refuses to go watch me spin at Luna tonight,” my boyfriend informed her, giving me an overexaggerated pout. “Isn’t that completely uncool of her?”
    Suzy nodded enthusiastically, as she did to pretty much anything Craig said. The girl was a walking, talking cliché. “Completely uncool,” she agreed, turning to me. “Especially since you haven’t been out in forever. We miss you, you know!”
    I sighed. Yeah, they missed me. The old me, that was. The happy-go-lucky club kid who loved to dance and party without a care in the world. Not the new Skye, tormented by nightmares and driven mad by lack of sleep. If only they knew what a downer I’d be, they wouldn’t want me there in the first place.
    “Sorry, Suze. I’m just not feeling well. I’ve been having these horrible dreams and—”
    “Ooh, that reminds me, I had this crazy dream last night!” Suzy butted in. “Ryan Reynolds and I were all making out at Luna, right? And then Ryan Gosling walks in. And he’s all …”
    I groaned as she babbled on in way too much detail about her celebrity threesome. Seriously, was everyone hooking up and making out in their dreams while I was busy being chased and tormented in mine?
    “I’ve got to get to class,” I announced. At this point I wasn’t even going to be able to score that soda. I started to push my way through the two of them. But before I could make my escape Suzy’s fingers suddenly locked on to my arm, her fire engine–red nails digging painfully into my flesh.
    “Ow!” I cried, turning around, my eyes widening as they fell upon her face. My heart started beating fast as I stared at my cousin.
    Gone was the sparkle in her eyes, the laughter on her lips. Gone was the arrogance, the flirtation—all that I knew my cousin to be. Instead there was a strange … blankness to her expression. Blue eyes but nobody home.
    “Uh, are you okay?” I asked, peering at her a little closer. The change was so startling and sudden—it was almost as if someone had flipped a switch. I glanced around to see if anyone else had noticed. But the hallway had become eerily quiet; the other students seemingly vanished into thin air. Even Craig, who was still standing there, seemed so preoccupied, staring down at his phone, it was as if he wasn’t actually present.
    My heart started beating faster. Something was seriously weird here. Was I having another dream? I reluctantly turned back to Suzy.
    “Skye, I need you to go to Luna tonight,” my cousin was saying in a slow voice that sounded nothing like her normal boisterous tone. She paused, then added, “I think Trent is cheating on me and I need you to find out if I’m right.”
    I let out a breath, forcing my shoulders to relax. She was just freaked out about her stupid boyfriend, I told myself, that was all. Probably not without good reason.
    “You need to go to Luna’s VIP room tonight and catch him with this girl,” Suzy continued in the same detached-sounding voice. “You need to take a photo of the two of them together and bring it back to me. So I’ll have the proof I need.”
    She paused, waiting for my