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"Yeah, so you could take one of your friends I never planned on going"

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"Sorry," he mumbles coldly

"Please?"

His face hardens

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"Please," I repeat,"Please go without of this house We stay in all the ti and I’ you job hunt, and I feel like we need this You’re so stressed, Richard It’ll be good to get out And look, we don’t have to stay the whole time We can leave whenever you’re ready I pro I don’t o with me" I hold his face with both of my hands and force hi away "We used to do stuff together like this all the time I miss it Don’t you?"

"Shit’s different now I can’t afford stuff like this"

"Tickets are already paid for There’s free parking on the street And you can sneak in your own booze People do that, I think"

He inhales a slow, deep breath

It’s tense and tight and I think he’s going to tell me no, and I don’t knohy, it’s a stupid concert, it’s nothing, but

I duckwith me? Why is this so important?

I’m worried I’runts after several seconds, huffing out all the air in his lungs