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Ducking in fro offout there!" I yelled and finally looked to Austin

His face was pale and he was staring at lanced upstairs Levi alking down, his eyes rimmed with red

My stomach fell

"What?" I whispered Lexi walked in fro? Where’s Axel?"

Shivers ran downme, when Austin put his hand on my arm "He ain’t who you think he is, Al" His voice was hoarse froaze darted around the three of the about?"

"Axe," Austin said, "He’s been pushing coke again"

Feeling like the floor had vanished fro about? He would never do that again"

Austin shook his head "I’ believe it either, but I went down to that fishat as part of his parole and they hadn’t even heard of hi"

"No!" I said shaking ine what the hell must have happened here this afternoon Austin held up his hand

"I found a bag of coke in his rooot here, and worse, he brought that shit into my house I asked him to leave I can’t have that shit around us no more I can’t have my family involved in that kind of life no more"

A mixture of dread and sympathy flooded my chest and my hand flew over my mouth "You… you asked him to leave?"

Austin nodded his head

"Did you even let hiive him a chance to explain the coke, the market?"

Austin’s eyes dropped When I looked to Levi he dropped his head too

"You didn’t, did you?" I asked Tears began filling my eyes My God, he came here today to tell them all about his art and they’d thrown hi because they’d found a bastard bag of coke… that da in this new life… drowning in their rejection of him, of my rejection of him