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My friends began to paddle back to shore I couldn’t move It felt like my balls were ten tons heavy I didn’t believe in love at first sight Lust,for No This girl fucking intrigued me

“What’s her na hiaze ping-ponging between us

“Doesn’t matter, bro”

“What’s Her Nah a locked jaw

“Dude, she’s, like, way young”

“I will not repeat myself a third time”

Beck’s throat bobbed with a s He knew daal—it was on

“Jesse Carter”

Jesse Carter was going to be mine before she even knew me

Before I even knew her

Before her life turned upside down and her fate rewrote itself with her blood

So here was the truth that evenass wouldn’t admit later on in our story—I wanted her before

Before she became business

Before the truth caged her in

Before the secrets gushed out

I never did get to surf that day

My surfboard broke

Should have known it was an omen

My heart was going to be next in line

And for a s it

Then

The ht

It was chuckle-worthy, if not conant, fat, ghostly-white ht that carved ashes

I stared at it, so still and tranquil Beautiful things were often so useless

Don’t just hang there Call the cops Call an ambulance Save me

I wondered if I was going to die If so, how long would it take Pa before Darren would assure her I’d always been troubled? ‘Thweet,’ he’d console with his lisp, ‘But troubled’ How long before she’d agree with hi before the Kit Kat on Dad’s to sun?

“What a shaer to ether Especially in the town of Todos Santos, where tragedies only happened in the newspapers and CNN Oh, yes This would give the to talk about A forbidden and delicious tale about the fall frorace of the current It Girl

Realization trickled intofaucet Eet a slap on the wrist Community service? In my dreams The public embarrassment in the form of scowls and cancelled invitations to the country club’s events next year was reserved for me I was the outsider The mortal idiot who mixed with the blue-blooded royals of Todos Santos