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I crossed my arms over my chest "Please, do tellwith et to Rachel, but it wasn’t for hed, the sound evil to my own ears "Really"

"Really"

My nails bit into un to think was our word How junior-high i her in that picture, that’s all"

"First, I have no clue how that picture got here I haven’t seen it since I ripped Landon’s face out of it two years ago and shoved it in a box Whoever put it there obviously knohere I keep private shit at et into my fire box here"

"Landon?" What the hell?

"Yeah Landon He was the one who fell forto be respectful and keep it into let it sink in "I thought it was Nick"

"Nick? He would never do that He loved Brooke so ured they’d have three kids by now It was Landon I wrote the endgame comment on the picture before I showed it to hi like a love-struck puppy That’s when the pieces started to click and I figured it out No guy looks at his best friend’s girl like that That’s when he ca Then he started spouting the ‘we never meant to hurt you’ and ‘we didn’t want to break up the teah ca and sarcastic "How in love are you if you’re stilla side piece? If that’s love, I want no part of it"

"Okay," I said,what the hell to say to that kind of comaaades, to re up And then I ave hiht for her?" I asked Was he going to fight for ht I did at the time, but now I know better At first, he chose her He left the Renegades, and I ripped him out of the picture and shoved it into a box under my bed to re around you, ive up the people you care about e that inevitably wanes with ti them leave--the betrayal I felt--that was all from Landon Sure, Rachel hurtI depended on"

"You wanted hi how he’d told me that was the one quality he had to have in a friend

Paxton nodded "He couldn’t live without the teaed me to reconsider, but I was too pissed and too io won, and he lost the only wo that I’ve paid for since that day, watching hiirl we coht in him die I did that"