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"This is Avery, Nathaniel’s friend"

Lez steps forward and extends his hand "Lez"

"Nice torip It’s not that I have any kind of sexual attraction to this e, he’s absolutely out of this world It’s not often I coe so exceptionally well I can only ie Probably as handso fro over They give each other that aardback to us

"See you’veat irl, besides yourtih nervously, and stare at irl blush"

Lez chuckles "Where’sday"

Lez nods and givesback to Nate "You have probleettin’ her here?"

"Don’t stress, Dad I told Avery about Lena on the way here"

Lez nods "Right"

"And to answer your question, no, surprisingly I didn’t have a probleirl" Korey sighs "She’s not my favorite person, but she’s had a hard life This was bound to happen"

My heart clenches a little at her words and I try hard to keepher own choices, Mohter unattended and in danger--that’s never okay"

"I agree with the boy," Lez says "Ain’t never okay to put your child in that kind of danger"

"I understand that," Korey says, "But she’s in a bad place She’s had a very hard life and it’s catching up on her Nate is always away, and"

"Don’t, Mo back into the corner "She is choosing how she lives now Yes, she had a hard life, but that doesn’t excuse her drinking herself half to death and leaving Macy without supervision"

"I’ that itall the time When she’s alone she has no one to turn to"

I feel sick; I feel horribly sick Realization of the situation I’oing away, she wouldn’t have the life she has If I stopped my career she’d crack the shits because we had noyou don’t know, Mo her own path"

"Yes, but her parents: they’re awful She really has no guidance"