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It never felt as if I’d had a choice in beco He’d draggedwith him to my first party, and after I realized how easily I could iet about all the pain in a oner From that point on, we’d become a team When he needed work and found a job at Forbidden, he’d told ed, thinking why the hell not Frouys spiraled out of control I’d gotten close to Pick, and Hamilton, even Lowe, and kind-of-sort-of Hart But I’d always been careful not to get close to the feminine persuasion Use theutted you They either said shit that tore out your self-confidence, or they got hurt when you should’ve been able to protect them, which left you so broken you wished you were dead I tried to stay away fros" shit when it caht rude to them

Okay, fine Most of the tiuy had to protect hiutted you

I wasn’t expecting what happened to me to happen when Gamble carried Caroline into my life I didn’t welcome it either And I wasn’t very happy about the fact that Haed to crawl under ht Visitor? No No fucking way This shit had to stop Except it was already happening Texting my hot little bed coetting too happy and sappy around toowith Lowe and Loo toward theht before they could see ht, and I always loved to say so to piss off his woo anywhere near the o, I’d been worried about seeing Caroline again It was as if I was too guilty to face her or so her al her after a night of debauchery before But this just feltdifferent, which is probably what pro to scribble rabbingain, as usual?"

I looked up and tried to cover , because I honestly wasn’t all that sure what I’d been drawing; I hoped to God it wasn’t another picture of Caroline But his eyes were already widening

I gritted lanced down It wasn’t a perfect depiction of his sister’s face, however Thank God But toso much worse A sick dread pitched in my stomach as I stared at the four letters I’d drawn and decorated with fla my notepad, too Then he turned back tothe name Zoey?"

All warmth and sensation drained frolanced at Haer or confusion, a sad kind of sy a tattoo for Haood

Ga another tattoo?"

Hae where his woaze "Yeah," he roaned, certain he hadn’t thought about it until just now But now that I’d put the idea in his head, he was actually considering it Stupid ass Didn’t he know you didn’t tattoo a wo he and Blondie would be the lasting kind who stayed together forever, it was just dumb to tempt fate that way What if Blondie died on him? Where the fuck would he be then?

I slapped the notepad closed It was about time the willies, so I stood up and tucked the notebook away

I was about to bid these two losers farehen Galanced past me and shook his head "Great Here comes trouble"