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Once outside of the bar and into the fresh, moist air, he walkedlot, but you could hear the noises fro the air around us

"What’s the o of his hand and rested er door of his car Then I crossedup at the firht of lanterns when I gazed at the stars It was suddenly so silly to be angry; I’ born How silly to think I was significant at all… A pretty pessiht alone extinguished that anger on standby The world was too great to be angry right this moment But I could still feel disappointed

"I think you knohat’s wrong," I finally whispered, keepingyou here was a h his hair "I never should have brought you here to see all this"

"But that’s who you are now, isn’t it?" I replied,oo in there and you speak behind closed doors, and then you get out and you obey his commands, and then you fuck every pussy that walks within a metre of you"

He winced at my last feords "It’s not entirely like that--"

"That man is dead, isn’t he? The one that attacked me at thebecause his brother – donning that fucking leather jacket – walked in asking for it–"

"His brother is in the gang, but Brett wasn’t"

"But now you’ve crossed them, haven’t you?"

He looked around us quickly His cautious eyes wandered over every inch of the parking lot "Stop talking about this out here in the open"

"Is he dead?" I already knew the answer, I just wanted hilared at me "Don’t ask questions you don’t like the answers to–"

"You’re just going to keep closing the lid on it, aren’t you?" I exhaled in irritation "What’s so hard about answering it?"

"Because I’oddamnthe exhaustion inabout the de to say the answer out loud