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I flexet raduated this past year--his mom works with my mom at the hospital Would her husband talk to her hat you can’t talk to me about?"

He shakes his head no and round It all feels hopeless How can you be with someone on’t talk to you about theI know everything about you?" he asks "That even if ere married with ten kids, that you wouldn’t keep a secret your best friend swore you to protect?"

"That’s different" I think of how I proe to anyone that her father hurts her and her rity Not too h I don’t like it, I understand, then decide to let it go "The club--it’s your fagle, and he pushes me with his shoulder "At the end of the day, the shit you take is worth being part of your faht?"

My mind wanders to Clara and Liam and Zac and Paul I reminisce about dishes and years of diapers and how I’" Or if they even believe I belong with the anywhere"

His eyes soften "Maybe you belong with the Terror Most people who join, they say the saed anywhere else, and when they found us, they found a home"

His words hit a place too raw and I try to sirl, reaze travels otten for a second you’re a woman, but if you’re with me, you become a part of us"

It’s like someone stabbed me with an EpiPen Pure adrenaline shocksirlfriend?"

"Yes"

My heart leaps

"And no"

A verbal slap across the face