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It is summertime; Noah surveys the neighborhood, the woods, and the beach, using his father’s binoculars. He sees Jude surrounded by a group of girls, all dressed in bright bikinis. Dianna thinks Jude’s changing behavior is on account of hormonal changes, but Noah is sure that it’s because Jude hates him; she has stopped going to museums with Noah and Dianna for a while now. Noah knows that Jude has no reason to be jealous; if Jude shows Dianna one of her sand women, Noah is sure that it will change everything. He has been watching Jude make them and secretly took pictures of them. One of them was so incredible, that after Jude left, he destroyed it before the water could. He could not risk Dianna seeing it.
Noah shifts to looking at the movers carrying a piano into a house down the street, admiring the men’s bodies as they work. He suddenly spots a boy on the roof of the same house with a telescope pointed straight at Noah. The boy grins at Noah, then throws a flat rock across for Noah to catch. Embarrassed, Noah quickly makes his way down to CSA, wondering about the boy. Noah has been visiting the institute for the past two weeks, curious about the place and the kind of art created there.
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