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"Just…" Alec’s voice was hoarse, "Try For rabbed the keys to oing out"

"Demetri," Alec said my name like a curse "Let me see your pockets first"

"Am I your child?" I opened the door so hard it almost strained my arm

"No Yet you make me treat you like one"

I reached into my jean pockets and pulled them out "Empty" I didn’t want to say it was because I’d taken my stash for the day

Alec’s face relaxed like he was relieved "Thanks man, I’," I gru the screen door behind me

The car roared to life

Once I was around the corner, I reached into the consul and pulled out a tiny bag of pills

Tomorrow I’d quit tomorrow

CHAPTER FIVE

Alec

LATER THAT EVENING, I opened theand listened to the waves as they crashed against the beach There was so about the ocean, about the noise

It sounded like peace

Soht flickered on next door

I was still pissed that ere neighbors with the cute girl, let alone that our shrink was her ht, De so a girl through her bedroo, but da every tie of jealousy hit me square in the chest when I realized who she was probably texting

Onto throhen I needed it?

A run I needed to go for a run or do soet my sorry ass out of hed and lay down on her bed

So I went and lain down on ined what it would be like to hold her -- not kiss her -- just hold her in my arirl who kne to blush

I touched irls, screwed girls, hurt theht

She was the type of girl that should have been my first The one that you kiss once and never want to stop kissing

I ione to school with her; I would have asked her out on a date I would have kissed her as soon as I could I would have held her hand

De interrupted my daydream