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Fuck

"Candy!" she screaed my pills out with candy! You assle!"

I hold the phone away fro the s to that house, OK? It’s a safe place and I want you inside So get up off the ground" I wait but I don’t hearand then she says, "I’o into the garage" I give her a few ate closes, then the side door to the garage squeaks as she opens it

"OK"

"There’s a key in the tailpipe of the car A so inside the house and wait for uns in the trunk They’re all loaded with a cartridge in the chamber So be mindful"

Silence

"Harper?"

"Got the key," she says with a tre voice "How soon will you be here?"

Oh, she’s so scared I feel terrible but I do not want her getting any ideas about taking those pills again "Soon, OK? I’onna be OK?"

She sniffs "Yes"

"Iaway frolad you’re not back at the beach You’re fine right where you are, it’s no big deal"

She’s silent on the other end

"You sure you’re OK?" I prod her It’s weird to think of her as vulnerable The Coerous she is And yeah, if she really applied herself, she’d give ht But she doesn’t see Sasha Unlike that wild thing She’s out looking for an excuse to brawl "Just take a few deep breaths Were you followed?"

"I don’t see how There is no one out here for miles and I walked here from town But--I’m so afraid they can seeup, I’ll--"

And then the line cuts us off Fucking airplanes

I go back to the cockpit "We’re getting off in Vegas" Harrison grunts, so I just walk back to Sasha and take my seat

"You owe me now, James"

"I don’t owe you shit"

She smiles her I win so all the way back to California only to find herBut I didn’t I helped you And that lare at her "Who sent uess, because I already know And thatabout one thing I have not been set up I h