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I gritted my teeth and texted Sinclair I was on the way back Hate, hate, hate texting In addition to being a ticket to a body bag if you did it while driving, it was rude ("If you don&039;t put that down, I&039; to turn your phone into a suppository"), and disruptive ("Darling, will you doa text froroomerNo! Look, look at the picture he sent my phone! Mitzy is a poodle, not a dachshundDo you kno long it&039;ll take her fur to grow back? Do you? Huh?") But it was beyond mean to let him worry So I did the dirty, dirty deed, then started the car and pulled out of the driveway

I never drive and text and, as far as I&039;d been able to tell, I&039;m the only person in the state who does this

Twice in three months I had to stand on my brakes (Sinclair&039;s brakes) and watch, stunned, as the driver cruised straight through a red light, their gaze glued to the teeny screen in their hand Horns as Vengeance 101 tended to get their attention I was tough to ignore during the best of circu that I&039;out theto shriek, "Get your head out of your ass or I will find you!"

Whew Just thinking about texting prevalence ain If I were capable of it, I&039;d be having heart palpitations

Quietly, fro wheel actually groan as s worse by twisting around to see as in oing there was no other explanation

This is it I&039; Clive I al me alive! I never texted Sinclair that I loved him; I only texted him I was on the way home My texts are brutal; they&039;re an emotional Arctic Ocean Lord, please eventually let hiain with a woman who isn&039;t as hot as me

The only question left was, did the killer behind otta love the classics)

All this stuff happened in my head in a quarter of a second, and as a result while I was taking roll call for the backseat, I drove into a lamp post The whole car shuddered and jerked to a stop with the is seeish The pool of light created by the street lalass My seat belt tried its best to strangleto induce et Antonia now?" Garrett asked hopefully "There&039;s not much time left before sunrise"

"That&039;s it? That&039;s all you have to say to le-minded creature, but sheesh "You prick Why didn&039;t you say soave my car door a shove, then stood shakily in the street

The hood was accordianed back alas, oil, and hot hbors were in danger; I doubt any of thely as I could Didn&039;t see

I coughed and swayed and said it again "You prick Lurking in ah, Sinclair will not be pleased, and neither will our insurance company, Garrett, c&039;mon, jeez, I can&039;t-you shouldn&039;t-what the hell?" H a little bitey

"I told you I was in the back" He was calht fly into a zillion pieces, all of theot in You couldn&039;t hear ain"

I yanked on the car handle I was going to haul him out by the scruff his neck and beat hier door

"It&039;s true," Laura said "He was trying to tell you I said hi, too, but you had that lookthe o ahen people are trying to tell you things?"

"And then you snap back, and sometimes you&039;ve been able to follow the conversation and sometimes we have to help you," Garrett added

I could only assu here? "Good God!" Garrett climbed out; Laura slid out behind him I bent and peeked "How inning to recover fro God or Jesus or what have you felt like a whiplash Across his balls "We aiting for you"

"Swell" I ranthe urge to yank Or slap "Where to begin? I&039;onna stroke out Must punishand yelltoo ht?"

"Nooooooooooooooooooo"

Laura coughed, a delicate em-erm, and said, "We were in the saht"

That was a ! You knew you were in the backseat, but I didn&039;t know you were in the backseat so I was startled to hear him in the backseat and then see him and then see you, you knew that would all happen but I didn&039;t" I stared at the mess on the sidewalk "Also, nitwits, my moonna get stuck paying to fix the light"

"Since when do you even knohat taxes are?"

"Hey, great news, Laura, you just won! Here I&039;ve been wondering which of you to kill first I&039;m now officially in with: you suck And your ain" You&039;d think I could predict this behavior by now

People were opening their front doors to get a good look, and no wonder; the sound of the crash had ripped through the peaceful, s to bet someone had called the cops Histration? Because I had the feeling I was going to have to flash some paperwork At least no one was hurt Especially me

"Yes, well" Laura couldn&039;t look at me Garrett had no trouble, but he wasn&039;t nervous like she was Just hopeful, like a basset hound watching soht owe you an apology, you know, after what happened, but when I went to the mansion, Garrett met me in the driveway and we left for your mom&039;sto save time I took us to Hell first, then here I never even made it inside And I didn&039;t want to see-I mean, you were the one I wanted to talk to, not the others But we didn&039;t want to bother your mo the day? Great! We would now live happily ever after asback; we&039;d just surge forward, etc, etc, hallelujah, a Not just because Garrett liked skulking in the front yard, and not because he&039;d had the courage to ask Laura to ride along (the Garrett in my timeline would have barely spoken to her, never ) No, the worst part was how Laura illing to go straight to ed, one she kneas unpredictable and dangerous, one who, after being brutalized and killed didn&039;t speak a word for so like fifty years And thenthen! Lurk patiently in the backseat With an apology, no less Then be surprised when I freak out