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And why did he just think of Jace as an outsider? He was a part of the band just like the other guys Just because he’d only been with the band two years…

"Do we make you feel like an outsider?" Sed asked

Jace dropped his gaze to the table After a longI can do--"

"Where’s your girlfriend?" he interrupted

"I left her back at the hotel She pissed me off" Actually, she’d hurt him, but it pissed him off that she could do it so easily

"You want a ride back?"

Sed sighed, annoyed by his oeakness He should just stay away fros easier He knew she’d lashed out at hi He wasn’t sure how to take that hurt away, but he had to try "Yeah, if you don’tfirst"

He pulled his lyrics journal from under the cushion of the bench seat and started to write It would help to get these feelings out of his head, where they churned incessantly

He labeled the page: "Used"

He then scrawled beneath the title, in barely legible script:

You don’t see me

Blind to the real me

I’m not who you think I should be

But I can’t be so on the end of his pen

I’ll try to be who you need,

what you need,

I fail again

tear me, cut me, make me bleed

if it opens your heart to

Like the last ti without you

He closed the notebook and shoved it back under the seat