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“Right,” I murmured

“And I bet Cody thought he was fine He didn’t think for a second that getting behind that wheel would end that way”

He hadn’t

My chest ached and it had nothing to do with my injuries Cody had believed he was okay to drive So had Chris and Megan and Phillip

“He’s fine Co in ets and sweet-and-sour sauce”

Sing hard, I let the ht for a second there’d be a proble But me? I’d known differently

But Sebastian was right, in a way We all were responsible, in varying degrees We’d all been so incredibly careless, tiht about these kinds of things until they happened, until it was too late But at the end of the day, I was just as responsible as Cody Maybe not legally But definitely morally

And I didn’t kno to live with that

“Dary texted me earlier”

I raised a brow “Why? She was over here today”

“I know” Sebastian placed the bottle back between his knees “But she’s worried about you”

“She shouldn’t be” I leaned to the side as the twinge in my ribs increased “I’m fine”

Sebastian laughed softly under his breath “You’re far fro fine, Lena”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“It ht in the head doesn’t mean you actually are”

Brushing hair back from my face, I watched a star disappear behind clouds “Are you now thinking about a career in psychology or so?”

He chuckled this tiood at it”

I snickered “Whatever”

He stretched over, caught a strand of ently “Are you able to drive to school this week?” he asked “I was talking to Dad about it, and he said one of the guys he knows at the plant had a collapsed lung Just one They didn’t want hi until it was fully healed”

“Yeah, I hadn’t gotten that far in ”

“What about the ars, aze skyward “I live right next door I can drive you until you’re fully healed”

“That’s not necessary I’m sure I’ll—”

“I don’t know if it’s necessary or not, but I want to give you a ride until you’re a hundred percent”

I looked over at him Our eyes met and held “I’m fine I can drive”

“Or maybe you’re not Maybe your reflexes are slow because your ribs are killing you Orand an accident happens” He shifted toward h ere in separate chairs, there was suddenly very little space between us “I alain”

My breath caught and it had nothing to do with the current state of h? Don’t you have football practice? I don’t have volleyball practice,” I added, lifting the arm in a cast “I’m out”

“I’ve got alins” Sebastian didn’t question the whole volleyball thing And Coach was probably expectingto happen “I have tiet you home I want to do it,” he added, voice lower “And ouldn’t I? If this was the other way around, you’d insist on driving me”

He was right, but it would never be the other way around, because he wasn’t as stupid as h He lived next door He was still, no h maybe not once he knew about the part I played in the accident

He did that thing that drove o slowly “There’s so we need to talk about”