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Rubbing a kink in ish and I wasn’t sure what I should be doing right now All I wanted to do was rieve someone who no one in the outside would knew had passed?

Dee cleared her throat "Daes that weren’t salvageable So a picture over the crack in the wall" She peeked up as if gaugingshape"

My shoulders sluht’s causalities, but I had no idea hoas going to explain that to my mom

"Thank you," I said finally, voice thick "I don’t think I could’ve done that"

Dee twisted a strand of hair around her finger Minutes passed in silence and then, "Are you okay, Katy? Like, really okay?"

Shock caused me to take a few seconds to respond "No, I’m not," I said truthfully

"I didn’t think so" She paused, wiping under her eyes with the palm of her hand "I really liked Carissa"

"Me, too," I whispered, and there was nothing else to be said

Everything that ca we’d been so focused on seemed almost unimportant, which those issues weren’t, but a friend was dead--another friend Her death and her life was a mystery I’d known her for six months, but I hadn’t known her at all

Chapter 26

Playing sick on Tuesday, I stayed ho See Lesa and know her best friend was dead and pretend I didn’t know a thing I just couldn’t do it yet

Every so often, I saw Carissa’s face There were two versions: before last night and afterward When I saw her and her funky glasses in my memories, my chest ached, and when I saw those vastly eain

And I did

Mo, I rarely skipped school And secondly, I looked like crap Being sick didn’t take a leap of faith She spent the better part of themy mom more than she could ever know

Later, after she went upstairs to get so a black cap pulled do, he came in and closed the door behind hi here?" It was only one in the afternoon

He tookroonored that "Shouldn’t you be in school?"

"You shouldn’t be alone right now" He twisted his cap around

"I’ look Admittedly, I was happy that he was here, because I did need so on All day I’d been ripped apart, caught by guilt and confusion, tossed around by sorrow I couldn’t really even grasp

Wordlessly, he led ainst his side His heavy ar our voices loe talked about norh him or me

After a while, I twisted in his arms so that our noses brushed We didn’t kiss There wasn’t one shenanigan going on between us We held each other, though, and that waselse we could’ve done Daemon’s presence eased

My ether on the couch, just the ere when I woke: Dae atop mine, my hand balled around his shirt It was the scent of the coffee that roused me just around five

Reluctantly, I pulled out of his ehcrossed over her ankle as she leaned against the fra cup of coffee was in her hands

Mo Lucky Charet them?" I asked

"What?" She took a sip

"Those…hideous pajaed "I like the off his hat and running his hand through his rin "I’m sorry, Miss Swartz, I didn’t mean to fall asleep with--"

"It’s okay" She waved hilad you wanted to be here for her, but I hope you don’t get what she has"

He cast ivealien cooties, it was Dae it out of her paja coffee onto the floor Her face lit up, the way it always did when Will called her My heart dropped as she turned and headed into the kitchen

"Will," I whispered, standing before I realized it

Daeht behind me "You don’t know that for sure"

"I do It’s in her eyes--he low" I wanted to barf, like, seriously Suddenly, I saw Moone like Carissa Panic blossoot close to her"

"Tell her what?" He blocked et close to you--that he used her? I don’t think that’s going to lessen any blows"

I opened my mouth, but he had a point