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“What, you’re not going to show me!?” Luca presses, laughing and reaching again for my schedule. “No way!” I shout, turning so that my back is to the arm of the couchand I’ve got my feet between us, ready to kick him away if I need to. I grew up with brothers and cousins, after all – I know how to do a couch war. “I didn’t even get a look at it yet!” “Well, then just tell me what your track is –“ “I cannot,” I say, holding my paper close so that it mysteriously covers half my face. “It is…a state secret.” Luca laughs again, leaning forward. “You spy,” he hisses, and then quick as a snake he snatches the paper from my face, immediately leaning away and holding the paper far out of my reach. “Give it back!” I demand, laughing, and throw myself after him, landing half in his lap as I re