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I rubbed my eyes I was tired, but also restless My skin was literally itching toproble bullet in Eli

Ideally I’d like to do it without even stopping the fucking car, and then hightail it back to Pup Then, we can figure the Max thing out

Together

"You got any space left?" I called over to Bear, as lying face down on the couch We were in the aparte With no s and only a single door in and out itducks than thethe parts of his body that weren’t already covered with ink "Soers I think…and my dick, but you ain’t my type, fucker, so hands off"

He can’t tattoo you’re dick, Bear He doesn’t do hed at the sound of Preppy’s voice in my head and took another hit of the joint Bear and I’d been passing back and forth "What’s so fucking funny?" He asked, lifting his head from the cushion His eyes ris as long as I could, letting it burn in my chest until I had no choice but to blow it out "This is fucked up, but…I still hear hi three hits before leaning back on the couch with his arms spread across the back of the cushions "I knohat you mean Me too He’s always been there to break up all the heavy shit we’re all stewing in Now that he ain’t here, it’s just all heavy shit…and no Prep"

The plan had been to take a night and get so back to it I’d tossed and turned for hours, knowing that until Pup was back in ain

I heard Bear grunting, doing his own tossing and turning

So finally, we’d just quit trying

For three hours we’d been getting high, and for a while it was almost like old tihts the exact same way Except without Preppy And just like those tiun

"You ready to do this?" I asked, holding up the gun, using the foot pedal to make it buzz in the air

"Fuck, yeah Ink me, bitch," Bear came over and sat on a stack of tires he used as a makeshift coffee table with his back to me With his chin on his chest he reached behind his head, ers to one of the few unht there man"

I went in freehand and forty

PREP

He didn’t even ask to see it before he fell back on the couch He lit a cigarette and poured out so it into lines with a razor blade, using a rolled up dollar bill he snorted two lines Pinching his nostrils together, Bear chuckled "Ree into the bay? Man, that shit was epic"

"I re me the rolled up bill "Preppy about had a coronary when you threw him in the water Had his white suspenders dry cleaned three times that week"

Bear looked as tired as I did but there was more to it than just a lack of sleep I’d never seen hiot you all inside out? You haven’t been right for a while Even before shit when doith Preppy What the fuck is up with you?" I asked

Bear sighed, resting his hand holding his cigarette against his teavel"

"Hasn’t that always been the plan?"

Bear shrugged "Yeah, when he died or was like ninety Even then part of avel in his stiff hands But he wants to pass it toproblem?"

Bear stood up and started to pace back and forth in front of the couch "To be honest man? I’m just not sure I want it anymore What made sense when I patched in don’tIn the club Out of the club Things just ain’t how I thought they’d be," Bear said, looking absently at the ceiling He shook his head as if he were clearing the fog away "Maybe I just need some pussy," he said, "maybe when all this shit’s over I’ll text that British chick Jodi She fucks like a champ and prefers it in the ass"