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"I know you don’t I’ve been thinking about this all week Allto let them, or anyone else, treat you like that anymore" I wasn’t sure what look I had on my face, but Weston suddenly seemed nervous "What?"
"I don’t knowI hed "I know We’re two rade school I can’t go back, but I can make it up to you"
"That’s it? That’s your reason? You suddenly grew a conscience?"
He winced "Ouch"
I crossed et to the point You’re like a different person You’ve turned against all of your friends and are hanging out with arten I think it’s fair for me to ask why"
"I’ve talked to you as much as I could"
"As you could?"
He coughed into the crook of his arm "That’s not what I meant"
"I don’t need you to savetime I’m not a charity case"
He frowned "I never said you were"
"We’d both probably be better off if you just returned to life as normal, and left me alone"
He winced, like my words had physically hurt him "That’s bullshit You don’t really feel that way, do you?"
"I don’t kno I feel!"
"Neither do I!" he said, wheezing He pulled his inhaler froain, this time calmer "I don’t knohat I want to do with the rest of my life And I feel likeI feel like you’re the only person in the world that doesn’t expect me to What I do know is that I wasn’t happy about the direction ht I don’t knohat the hell I’ it I was kinda hoping you would wing it with h ainst his chest and hugged me His muscles were both soft and hard My head fit perfectly beneath his chin We stood like that for what seeood kind of sweat He could have s in the floor drain, and I still would have liked it
"I better get back up there," I said, ainst his chest He was a whole head taller than ly aware of his fingers onaround to the side of ined what it must have felt like many times before
He pulled away "I’ll see you later?"
"I have ho it with you"
I tucked uess I can do that If you leave me alone and let me finish"
"You won’t even know I’h the door, and when it sla Frankie in the face with the swinging door
Weston jogged to his truck, cli for only aout onto Main Street