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"Because it makes me evil?"

"Because it makes you miserable," he snaps and the bitter so head-to-head disappears

"You think I like watching you die? And I’ you recover fro out since you sold your first baggie You think you know s his shoulders "You do, but I know you, too You can pretend all you want that you’re a ghost, but I knohat’s inside you I knoho you really are"

I s the lu in irl who doesn’t care "Thank you for setting up Logan for me It’ll make it easier on him for the conversation to have coo, I gave Isaiah explicit instructions that if my work life spilled over into my attempt at a personal life that he was to run off anyone who I had poisoned with an, and had a little chat with him in a bathroom downstairs

"Don’t think it worked like you wanted He’s deterers flex as I recall howht inside les enter into ood type and I have no idea how to shut the Logan will be like slicing up what’s left of my already shriveled soul "He won’t feel that way after he figures out I’one and when you’ll tell him exactly who I left with"

"That person be me?" Linus walks into the rooatives

"Did yourbirth to Satan’s spawn or was she shocked when you popped out?"

I once again gain that hint of a so, Abby He doesn’t like to be kept waiting"

Feeling like so all s and tuck my bunny between my arm and my body I stare at the empty chair as tears burn oodbye to my best friend?

"I need two minutes with her," Isaiah says in this low tone that not ue with When there’s no eant "Now"

"Twofootsteps

I sniff and switchthat the view is blurry

"Don’t do this, Abby" There’s a hitch in Isaiah’s voice "You want to push Logan and West and even Rachel away, then do it, but don’t push me away"

I inhale deeply and when I turn to look at him the smirk fails as the corners of les towardat the co I’ll see you to in like I nor off his boss as I play with tools that cost more than Grams’s house? No, he won’t and I bite the inside of an could have died I can’t do this, Isaiah I can’t care for theain "You’re my family, Abby"

"And you’re mine and you need to let me take care of you and you need to take care of the rest of theain and don’t let theht to fear rabs ainst h He’s been my best friend since I handed him his first Pizza Pocket He’s been ly walked down the street withbesidehis power on the streets and it’s creating a vacuu to fill that vacuum and he’s chosen me to be part of the way up I can’t afford friends and I can’t afford to walk away"

Isaiah twitches like I stabbed him with ure it out"

He means it Isaiah means it more than I could ever coh"

"So it is ht now We’ll find another way"

"And it still won’t be enough I’ the one person who has loved est even at my worst may truly kill what’s left of the Abby I wish I could be, but no matter how an, I loveto my tiptoes, I press my hand to Isaiah’s cheek, and kiss the other one Isaiah crushes his hands on either side of my face and kisses my forehead and then stares into my eyes "I will always owe you I don’t care what it is, if you needwould cause the already floating wetness inisn’t a luxury for people like me As I walk away, Isaiah knoon’t call He knows that the choices I’ are set in stone forever