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He shrugged “It ht not But mutual destruction helps no one”

Now I knehy Noah didn’t want me to be around him any oing totally unhinged

“After everything Noah has done for you, you’d turn on him like this?”

“Shut up You know nothin’ about Noah or me And it’s Noah’s choice if I turn on him or not I don’t want to I would protect hiot the blame alone, just like you deserve But family is different No matter what they do, you can’t just turn your back on the about that, would you?” he asked, opening the door for hi to you people through nor for us”

When he was gone, Daniel came back in quickly

“Are you okay?”

I couldn’t answer I only leaned back into the seat further, wishing I could just disappear or go back to that one night and stop Esther solanced down at the award beside lass

I felt like I could hear her laughing at me

“Daniel”

“Yes, ma’am”

“When you get the chance, get rid of this forit in the front seat

“Yes, ma’am,” he said

Looking out the , I saw uilty, but because I was staring at soiven a speech telling young girls everywhere to just do whatever it is they wanted to do, yet I couldn’t take oddamn advice

How do I fix this?

How do I—