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Maybe I’ve just been hanging out with the kings tooto make sense to me I’ve never exactly livedis just one ray I findto put this behind the about it themse

lves

Of course, I can’t help but wonder how much of that is self-preservation

We don’t think the aze lingering on our car, and ere a good way down the street, hidden in shadows

But we don’t know that

It’s possible he did see the car, maybe even realized after he sped away froht’ve been watched—and now, it’s possible he’s doing the exact sa we are

Trying to figure out as there that night

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On Wednesday of the folloeek, there’s a funeral for Iris

I’m not invited, which makes complete sense, since she and I were never close friends—and no one knows I have any connection to her beyond our encounters at school Her parents don’t knoitnessed her final moments, and if they did know, I don’t think that would make them more inclined to invite me to the service

They’d probably hate me

All four of the guys are invited, and all four of the oldto the church dohere Iris’s fa

I hug Moht at a little after ten and head around the corner toout of the bedrooquickly insidein there—it’s the sa sex in once—but I decide I really don’t want to know My brain is overloaded with secrets, and even my usually curious nature can’t handle another one

Besides, once you learn so, you can’t unlearn it

I brush my teeth and slip into ht knock on the door I’e these days that even that soft sound makes me ju I want to knohat’s waiting forit