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I shook my head with a sreed, a wicked glint catching his eye in theher hoot this Don’t worry"

So e, and the look passed with a sigh He ski me time to decline, brushed his lips over ainst his lips, wanting to stay just a ave me a soft smile, and went back to the party

I watched hie of jealousy We weren’t exclusive Hell, eren’t even dating, but so e’d started upstairs with soirl

But I had to take care of April; I couldn’t follow hi around hi April

"Pictures?" I held up the SD card for punctuation "Do you knohat these could have done to you? You can’t get away from crap like this once soaze "I didn’t know they had a camera"

"You shouldn’t have been here in the first place!" I threw the SD card to the pave it into pieces underlike you sure as hell need me to be" I couldn’t escalate her teet drunk and laid?" I threw uest! But you have a boyfriend, or did Brett just morph into Tyler? Is that who you are now?"

"I told Brett I needed soin, or like Tyler is the only guy I’ve been sleeping with!"

Horror nearly frozeon with you, April? This isn’t you"

"Like you’d even understand!"

It felt like she’d slapped me "What do you mean?"

She tucked her red hair behind her ear, a nervous trait we both shared with our mother "Dad died, Ember"

If she’d wanted my defenses up, that was the way to do it "Yeah, I remember"

"You" Tears welled in her eyes "You just picked up and went along perfectly! Everyone else is falling apart and you’re justperfect little Ember! I don’t expect you to understand how this feels or why I’m here because I’m notperfect!"

A ball of frustration worked its way into, April? You’re here to forget"

Her head snapped up, her gaze et everything that hurts You don’t want to think about the fact that Mom can’t seem to function, or that Gus doesn’t have a dadthat we don’t have Dad" Noas , and worrying, and the fucking pain! So you lose yourself in sos because for those fewin your head or your heart but the way he’s et it"