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"Yeah, I’ritted teeth "Just so fkin’ turned on I can’t see straight"

"Oh," Lexi said and looked down When she noticederated, "Oh!"

Laughing, I pulled her down to face me and, this time, she reached for my hand "Thank you, Austin," she whisperedsound of an owl hooting outside the

Shrugging, she replied, "For being a fellow freak, I suppose" Her fingers tightened aroundme feel like a failure Like an inexperienced fool"

"You’re not a failure, Pix, nor a fool If anything, you’re a da that could’ve killed you"

"But that’s it, Austin Sos harder lately I feel I’ to tear down my walls" Lexi huffed and looked at me ide eyes "That’s the first time I’ve admitted that to anyone… maybe even to myself"

I pushed a ard strand of hair froet the better of you, Pix I won’t let it"

Lexi’s black eyebrows rose and she asked, "And hoill you ensure that?"

Shrugging, I said, "I just figure I’ll never let you outta , Lexi replied, "Careful, Carillo, that’s sounding scarily like a declaration of commitment"

"Call it what you like, Pix All I know is I like you And I wanna see you hter from the boonies with a rap sheet--"

"And I’in that can’t be touched," she finished off

"Match made in heaven, huh?" I said with a wink

"What could possibly go wrong?" Lexi joked

Although it was a joke, the two of us conteo wrong down this road She could relapse; the Heighters could majorly fk with me and ruin my dreams Hell, Axel,close to Pix, the only chick who could bring down the Heighter ownership of caht now, I didn’t wanna think about what could go wrong for us, didn’t wanna think of my older brother, Mamma, or Levi I just wanted to sleep next to the little dark pixie and forget all our proble, Lexi settled farther into the mattress, and I watched as she closed her eyes

With our fingers still entwined, I stared at her beautiful face and whispered, "Why the war paint, Pix?"

Lexi sucked in a deep breath and exhaled it real slow Her eyes never opened, but a single tear rolled slowly fro black lashes and her hand in irl underneath," she whispered back

My heart just about ht her hand toat the cold skin