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Instead, I picked up my phone, went into my contacts and hit the"Hi, Mom"

"No! No!" Evan shouted

"Mom, I’ charges last night I put up ht you would like to know" I hung up before she could respond, even though of course she’d just calltone returned Bending over, with his hands on his knees, he hacked out a laugh so derisive itfunny?" I barked, ignoring the phone when, as I kneould, it buzzed

"Your car is totaled It’s a junker"

"What? What are you talking about? It’s perfectly It’s at Moan to realize what he was really telling ave him a death stare in triplicate

"What did you do to it?" she asked in a cold voice that fairly slithered

I inhaled so fast and hard I sounded like I was having an asthma attack "You drove my car?" I screeched "You stole the keys fro pale, face turning sy, but she see I didn’t understand

"I didn’t steal anything Moave me the keys"

"Liar! Mom swore she would never"

Stupid

Stupid Stupid Stupid

How could I be so stupid?

Bzzzz My phone was still ringing I could see that it was Moo away I’ed "Whatever Notme back for this!" I screaer was uided me toward the T

We were done here

I left the jail that day, climbed on the subway, and didn’t say another damn word to Darla until ere almost home

My phone buzzed in my pocket off and on the entire ride as nored it

"You don’t have to go back to my apartazine that she’d picked up back at the station

"It’s okay," she said, shrugging "Sometimes it helps to have so"

"How do you know that?" I asked her

"Knohat?"

"How do you know that soht now that’s what I need?"

Her eyes shifted a bit and she frowned, rolling the question around a bit with her tongue inside her teeth Her nostrils flared, and then she said, "It’s what coht What caain I picked it up and decided to face what lies beneath "Hello," I said, knowing and holding the phone about three inches from my ear

"Evan! What happened to Evan?" my mom screamed

Stay caler emotionally involved "I left Evan at the Middlesex County Jail," I recounted "He ure this out Then again, it’s not like you can pick hi of words that made no sense Darla held her palms up and made a motion with her head that indicated she didn’t understand a word Mo Neither did I The emotion was clear "What happened?" Mom finally said

"Ask hie didn’t work this tiainst a vacuu and groaning came out of the phone, and it surprised me to realize that’s all it was There were no words, no sentences, and as Mom went on and on, I summoned my new clarity It would always be like this

It would always be like this

Evan sucked all the oxygen out of the rooer to enable hin the title of et screaive up h As Mo detachame anymore

"You can’t tell anyone," Mom fumed into the phone "My God, do you knohat this would do to me at work, if people knew that Evan--that--well, there must be some mistake"

"There’s no et out of j--what ha--?"

"He had a 7500 bail set, Mom He called me, so I went down there and paid 750 and put my car up as bond"