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"Okay," she says dubiously, and leans her head against the side"I just hate it when everybody’s too quiet or too loud"
"Yeah, , and turn the radio up so we can hear it against the beat and squeak of the wipers and the roar of the defroster I peer out through the windshield, trying to ignore the vision "Dang, it’s nasty out here"
"Maybe we’ll get a snow day tomorrow," Rowan says, excitement in her voice "Oh, wait"
"Yeah," I say "Saturday That’s the breaks"
"Work is going to suck"
"It always does on Valentine’s Day," I say And I have to angle my head away fro to suck this year"
"Because of Sawyer? You like hiht?"
I think about that as I turn into the alley and park the truck, and we sit and wait for Trey to get here so we can enter as a force as usual "I guess you could say that But he doesn’t like me, so it’s not a problem"
"I think he does"
"What do you know?"
"He follows you around, he watches you I see his "Hey, I’m not blind But like you said, it’s better if he doesn’t like you"
I frown Rowan is sneakier than she looks But this news justcrevasse in my chest opens up a little more "Hurry up, Trey," I o inside It’s 4:04 I have exactly twenty-seven hours to figure out what I’m supposed to do
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"I wonder what kind of croe’ll get tonight," Mo down"
Mom and the three of us kids stand at the front entrance as it nears five o’clock, ready and waiting for the early birds, but not sure if they’ll co up on toilet paper I feel like we could oland know that if they need anything, anything at all, we probably have it upstairs
"We’re going to be slaauging delivery orders
We all agree, mesoing into the dining roo’s ready for the brave souls who venture out, and it is, of course I plop down in a booth and stare out the ondering what Sawyer’s doing right now If he’s reet it Wondering what’ll happen, and how My stomach churns as now, in all of our s, the vision plays out over and over, and I can’t get away from it It plays out on the front of the menus, too, and the paper place mats on the tables, and the coency of the vision is coh loud and clear "Okay, okay," I mutter "I know already"