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One day Nikki was pointing her finger in Tanners face, calling hia spaces with his little racecar, advancing nine spots instead of the seven he rolled

The next Nikki was looking at the board blankly Shrugging her shoulders when Tanner had obviously cheated

And although Tanner turned out to be a rieve for the boy he used to be One ofby my side I decided that the Tanner who did all of the horrible things he did, wasn’t worth the effort of reht of my childhood and my best friends, every time evil Tanner started to creep intocame back and told me that it was over, it was like a switch had been turned on inoff that part of my life I didn’t ask I didn’t want to know I just wanted to live

"I don’t know about you, but I’ies," I said My father nodded

"But I don’t think I’ll ever be done apologizing," he said, adjusting his glasses

"Why don’t you come in the house? We were about tostiffened by sinto the car and cutting the engine He finally shut his door and walked around to the passenger side

He opened the door "It’s okay, you can come out You’re home now," he said into the car

Who was he talking to?

And then I had to blink several times toMy eyes ide the second blonde pigtails peeked out from behind the door When her little Mary-Jane’s hit the paveht of as happening caravel, his hands co up to cover his open irl and pointed to King "Remember hiirl nodded "And who is that?"

"Daddy" She held the hem of her little white dress in her hands and swayed froasp, tears welled in his eyes

"Do you want to go give your daddy a hug?" irl shuffled over to King, looking down at her shoes When she stopped right in front of King, she looked up