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"Thanks, buddy," Trey said

Trey made his way back to the sofa and plopped down next to Brian

Sed watched Jessica across the table for a ht before into Myrna’s laptop Jessica had finally caught up on the data backlog and she refused to get behind again Sed touched her wrist to gain her attention and she glanced up Sed nodded toward Trey, their conversation about hied, not getting his silent e

"Hey Trey, why do we need to stop?" Sed called to him

Trey started and then sain? Didn’t you just get a refill a couple of days ago?" Sed asked

Trey avoided his gaze "I spilled about half the bottle down the sink I’ the scar under his hair You couldn’t even see it now unless he pushed his hair up

"You’re a terrible liar"

"I’et off his case Why would he lie about being a klutz?" Brian handed Trey several pieces of music "What do you think of this? Do you think you can handle it? It’s got a lot of triplets, and I know those are still hard for you"

Trey frowned as he read over the lines of notes "I’ll get through it so better"

"Yeah, I know" Brian patted Trey on the thigh "Do you want to practice for a while?"

"Yeah, okay Get uitar out I’ll be back in a minute I need to use the bathroom" He climbed to his feet and headed toward the back of the bus

Sed glanced at Jessica again She nodded, her expression sad as she watched Trey aot to do so, Jess," he murmured

"I think so too," she whispered so only he could hear, "but what do we do?"

"Let uys first See how they want to handle this"

She nodded "I’ll help any way I can"

He reached across the table and squeezed her hand "Thanks"

Sed slid fro Trey’s acoustic guitar on the sofa "We need to do so the best he can, Sed His fingers are getting stronger every day Don’t be so hard on hi about his painkiller addiction"

Brian’s fingers stopped s and he looked up at Sed "What do you mean?"

"You’re his best friend How can you not notice? He’s in the bathroo to end up killing hi the bathroom, Sed No need to call in the Feds"

"He just went to the bathrooo And do you really buy that story about hi his pills down the sink? Cons We saw this happen to Jon and we ignored it until it was too late I’ to let it destroy Trey too"

"In case you’ve forgotten, Trey has a prescription and he needs his s"

"Addiction is addiction Percocet is a narcotic He was only supposed to be on it for teeks and it’s been over a ht here"

"If it will make you feel better, I’ll ask hi hied He paused next to Sed, unsteady on his feet

"You okay there, bud?" Sed asked