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"Of course," he s his hand towards me "Let me see your phone"

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"What’d you do?" I flipped it open and started looking through it, trying to see what he could’ve done

"You’ll see," he s hed

"You have no idea"

When I got out of the car, he was still laughing Being with hi, but it also ended up a little tiring Even when he wasn’t y about hi around him

I’d barelysheepishly at ainst the kitchen counter, all decked out in pajamas since it was past his bedti on when I heard the rather shrill voice ofin the tattered easy chair in the living rooraying hair was a frayed e, a feature that both Milo and I had inherited, er than ere She lit another cigarette as she cast a cold glance at me

"Why aren’t you at work?" I asked

"They had a boht," Mo all the calls to Edina’s station"

"Oh" I stood aardly in between the kitchen and the living roo on

"What were you doing out so late?" Her voice lilted at the end, taunting me

"I don’t have school, and I don’t have a curfew," I answered cautiously

In theory, I ht’ve had a curfew, but we’d never even talked about it and she alorked nights On weeknights, I tried to be in by ht,Mom really kept track of hether or not ent to school and passed all our classes As long as I did that, everything else seemed fine with her