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The black dots in front of his face got worse, an undulating sea of darkness beckoning at hiht, aren’t ya? What is it?"

They were in e’s bulk supported by Jerry and Reed as they carried hiue impression of the sidewalk beneath his feet, but couldn’t see fro his throat "Don’t call her…don’t…she can’t know…proe--"

"Promise"

There was a pause, then Reed’s unhappy voice "I proratefully

And passed the fk out

…

If it were anyone else calling, Skyler probably would have slept through the ringing of her phone, but she’d prograe, and soht out the bedside clock When she realized it was four in the e wouldn’t call so late if it weren’t important

She picked up i to Gage filled her ear

"Skyler? It’s Reed"

Her sto if Gage’s best friend was on the line

"What happened?" she blurted out "Is he okay?" The slight hesitation on the other end sent her heart rate into overtihed him up"

She sed a cold rush of fear "How bad?"

"Bad And the o to the hospital, so I took hi up without another word and proceeded to dress in a panicky ind, throwing on the first ite she found Then she flen the stairs toward Lacey’s room, only to halt in her tracks when she remembered that her friend was at the hospital Damn it Lacey was a doctor--Skyler would have felt a million tie with her