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I tip my head to thebehind me "Do you trust them?"

She lowers her head like trusthat you can’t cover when you go legit"

"You’re asking me to have more faith in you than I’ve ever had in anyone"

I a without seeing it first?"

"You suck, Logan"

"Oh, well"

I ease onto the car next to Abby and she knocks her knee againsthis car"

"I’hs "You aren’t scared of anything I’ about you"

Abby raises her face to the deep blue sky above "I couldn’t afford fear, not for a long ti that I’m scared of"

"What are you scared of?"

"Of still breathing but being dead inside I think that’s a fate worse than death I was already halfway there when I walked into the car shop to find you and Rachel hanging with Isaiah I knew then I should have walked away, but I was tired of being nuht in that her ad because Abby deservesherself out there

"A few years after being first diagnosed with diabetes, things went bad My kidneys freaked and I ended up in the hospital I was scared then" Terrified "When I was better, one ofand I loved the rush Loved feeling alive Death scared me soRelance over at her "I was also scared when I heard shots in the alley, saw you lying face-down on the ground Death scaredyou still scaresOne eighteen-year-old and one seventeen-year-old Both dealing with adult shit Both having the e to each other, but unsure how to navigate emotions

"Think we did this to ourselves on purpose?" Abby asks