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"We can caht and then asps, "Em, we came all this way and this house is ours"

She has become me in a lot of ways, and somehow, I’ve become Will I don’t want to kill the people in the house for it They got there before us

Jake shakes his head, "Eht We leave for the mansion too all the way back I don’t want to sleep outside"

She’s tired and whiny Jake wraps an arot their first, they don’t deserve to die for finding an e I sit beside her and nudge her, "I’ht of theIt makes me smile She wrinkles her nose at ht and passes us all some dried meat and apples We drink the last of our water in silence, wishing ere inside of that house

I rip off some dried meat for Leo, but I don’t see hi or doing his circle," I mutter, but I don’t feel like that’s the case I feel weird about hi where it sits suspended He looks down, "Wanna have a fire?"

I nod, "Yeah They can’t gethere We aren’t too close to the house"

He sighs and rubs his eyes, "Coet wood"

I al harder He’s trying to not be the grasshopper who played all sus at my heart He pulls me up and into the woods

I don’t jerktoaround them more has helped e that I see I’h the forest, looking for wood He looks back, "What do you think about Anna having a baby? Really think?"

"I think it’s good She has a piece of Bernie that’s hers He will be there forever in the form of that baby"

He scoffs, "She’s seventeen She’s going to fall in love again She probably wasn’t in love She’s too young"

"Jake, she loved him She isn’t a normal seventeen-year old She’s way older and she’s seen wayand he hated that he loved her, but he did I don’t think she’ll ever love again I think she’ll be a good ood uess"

I sh we can find our way back easily

I pick up a piece of wood but he takes it "Will you ever get over Will?"

I shake my head, "I don’t know Will you?"

He shakes his head, "No I get why he becaet the pain and sorrow he’d seen made hione I’rab, "It’s not your fault Will chose saving you over himself That’s the kind of person he was Even before, that’s the kind of guy he was"

"Tellyou rehtly, "My mom used to take us out toin the su us to the movie and make us watch whatever crap Anna could watch Me and Will would complain and complain So finally one day, ere in the city for the o to a show by ourselves Anna was like three and they were going to see the So see the newest Paranoro; scared the heck out of me I hate scary movies but Will loved it I pretended to love it too, but he could tell I was scared So e got home, he let me crash in his room with him until I wasn’t scared anymore He slept on the floor and let me sleep on the bed, but never told mom or anyone"

His arms are full from the wood I’ve stacked in them and we’re far fro to him talk

He turns around and smiles, "He let me pick next ti back to Anna and Sarah, looking at his broken branches

My heart stops when I hear screa Jake looks atbetter The screa screa Jake and me to the far is coht across the field, I can seeup withhard I run silently, as always I slip against the barn, hearing the cries of Sarah and the high moan of Anna What if they think she’s infected I pull uns and sneak around the far side of the barn

I see Sarah and Anna’s legs on the ground with a hugeso hard I can barely make it out, but I do She cries, "WILL!"

I drop to round

Jake launches hi people

My stunned and silent face doesn’t want to react, in case it’s wrong I don’t s or breathe or cry I sit frozen as Will gets off of Anna and Sarah and turns to s hi at Will I don’t think I’ve ever seen him so excited, but I have no response I don’t have excitery,on in front of my face

"Jakey! Jakey!" Will’s voice cracks He doesn’t sound normal but he says Jakey like before I hate that name