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He laughs incredulously "Life’s called beating the shit out of someone?"
"It was our life for a while," I say and he fidgets uncoe to ram my fist into the table in front of me "I didn’t beat the shit out of him I broke his nose, knocked out a few teeth, and bruised the shit out of his face That’s it"
"Yeah, but what did Caleb Miller do to you?" he presses "The last tiuy"
I popon the to split open "He’s a fucking prick who got aith so he should be in jail for What I did to hiet up because I don’t want to talk about it any me with his bloodshot eyes "Didn’t you beat him unconscious?"
I shake ht I did, but it turned out he was just playing it up Yeah, his face looked like a fucking lumpy blueberry, but by the time the police putit for all it orth
I walk outside, done with the conversation I don’t have a coat on, just a hoodie, but I welco through the snoith one froe with the key in it I runabout the last ti to ju, but I was showing off for a bunch of girls and ended up skidding into the dirt and giving myself killer road rash It was s s I’ve done to ht pain inside theover the seat, turn the key, and floor the throttle while I hold down the brake The engine and exhaust huffs to life and for a split second I feel alive I pick up e onto the road It’s colder than hell, but it could be worse It’s actually a warm day for Afton and the roads are clear I can deal with it as long as I drive slowly I just need to go somewhere
Anywhere, but here
Callie It’s been a little less than a week since I saw Kayden at the café I’ve texted and called hi because he won’t answer I can’t stop thinking about the eer in them when he pulled away
Seth’s texted hioes unanswered It kills me that there’s been no contact with him and that he’s up in that house, alone with his terrible fa silent about his life Silence Silence Why is it always about silence? I wish both of us could tell the world and be free fro around
Seth and I have been spending a lot of ti toothat will keep me away from my mother It’s not like she’s been terrible, but she keeps reation to e deal" But yesterday was Christ out at the house all day It didn’t go very well and we ended up getting into an argument when she pulledout with Seth anymore
"He has quite a mouth on him," she’d said "And I don’t like his attitude"
"You don’t have to like it,to stay o over very well and she started lecturing irl she lost, the one who didn’t sass off
"What are you thinking about?" Seth asks We’re up in the rooht spilling all over the snow and ice andit reflect against the ice, looking so perfect, yet I know if I step outside, the cold and slipperiness won’t hold up the perfection "You have this strange look on your face… like you’re thinking about killing so next to the sill kicking a punching bag with o, after et into shape"
"I’e of the h as he lays on his stomach on the bed "Like what?"
I shakeit Sweat beads down the back ofloose fro… just the weather"
He cocks an eyebrow as he peers up froot on a pair of jeans and a striped shirt and this leather string necklace around his neck "The weather?"
I shrug, pivotone more time Breathless, I pad over to the bed, the concrete floor cold against my bare feet, and I hurry and hop onto the mattress "Yeah, soht apes at irl You know that?"
I nod as I tuck my feet underneath the blanket "I’ve been told that a few tihs and then eyes my outfit I still have my paja on staying dressed like that all day? I was hoping we’d go out"
I lean back against the wall, fanning my hand in front of my face to try and cool off "To where?"
"Anywhere but here"
"This place is already wearing on you, huh"
He shakes his head and starts reading the page in front of hi off into Callie la-la land You’re bu be out since that day you ran into Kayden at the café"
He peeks up atblack eyelashes A strand of his hair falls into his eyes, but he doesn’t bother brushing it back
He looks like he’s waiting for ?" I ask, draping my arhly flips another page and he accidentally rips the corner "You’re keeping so from me that happened at the café… when you ran outside"