XVI. PARKER

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( STRAY KIDS! )
CHAPTER FIFTEEN.
❛ parker ❜





THE CEILING IS BATHED in soft wintry light, reds and yellows and greens. there's an iridescent shape of a snowman dancing with a reindeer. she holds up the sweater, her expression mutinous.

"thanks, eli," peter says.

"yeah, yeah parker."

"why do you call me that?"

"i don't know, i just prefer to call my friends by their last name." she shrugs.

"oh. . . i, yeah. i'm your friend then? cool. i'm maze's friend. maze's bud. maze's special pal."

"okay, i take it back."

"na-ah, too late, comrade maze."

"i'm serious, don't ever call me that again."





THEY FALL ASLEEP in the early hours of dawn. her hand has fallen off the edge of the bed and peter knocks it gently as he turns in his sleep.

it's the beginning of something.



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