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She snatched the bottle out of his hand "No, I was just… just looking for the… uh… iron supplelanced up at him and sed "No, actually, I don’t Thank God" He stood and scanned the shelf He quickly found the iron supplements, plucked a bottle off the shelf, and put it in her hand "There you go Now go find the rest of your girly stuff and head back to the bus"

Jessica bought all the stuff she’d told Trey she needed She tried to see what he was up to while she stood in the checkout line, but her line of sight was blocked by a display of cheap stuffed ani for her outside the bus when she left the store "Well? What did you find out?"

She sighed "Not much He had a new prescription slip and he didn’t have his insurance card with hiirl into not calling his physician for verification She’ll probably get fired"

"He had a new prescription slip? He didn’t try to get a refill or trick the his pills down the sink?"

"Nope He handed the pharhtful for a moment "I wonder howaround trying to catch hih a lot"

"Yeah, I know But if he’s using, I’h a hell of a lot more"

Chapter 30

Sed dumped the little peach-colored pills from the prescription bottle into his palm and counted them Thirty-six Yesterday, there had been fifty-two The label clearly said one to two tablets every six hours, not to exceed eight tablets per day Thoughh evidence to get the rest of the band to ainst hiut that Trey needed help and he wasn’t going to wait until they found hin that they should do so pills to the bottle, secured the lid, and tucked the amber container into his pocket He let himself out of the bathrooain, his head leaning at an odd angle against the back of the sofa He never did much more than sleep these days

"Tired, Trey?" Sed asked and nudged him in the side to wake him

"Let hi TV "The concerts are really wearing him out"

Sed snorted "Yeah, the concerts have really been knocking him on his ass lately" Sed shook Trey’s shoulder "Hey, sleepyhead, wake up"

Trey groaned and covered his eyes with both hands "Fuck, o to bed? You don’t look very cohis head off the back of the couch He finally hauled himself to his feet and headed directly for the bathroom The bottle of pills in Sed’s pocket suddenly felt very conspicuous

A lot of loud rattling and swearing came from the bathroom Trey opened the bathroom door "Has anyone seen my pills?"