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"Milo!" I sat up and s here?"
"Jack called and asked if I wanted to coed and careat!" It wasn’t until I saw him, his nervous brown eyes and his chubby cheeks, that I realized how one for two days, but since I’d barely even seen hiive you guys soratefully at him, but he just nodded and shut the door behind his" Milo ad the saly me "Did they do this for you?"
"I think Mae did soed
"So, how are they treating you?" He sat tentatively at the edge of the bed, afraid that Iood They seem happy to haveMilo carefully "How’s Mom?"
"Good She misses you, I think I mean, she won’t say it But she wants you back at home" When he looked at onna come houess not This is probably all too much to pass up for our little apartment There it’s just me Here, you have Jack"
"It’s not like that" Guilt rushed overexotic meals just for one, and I wanted to cry
"Then what is it like?" Milo de on with me "To be honest, I was a little surprised that you and Jack had separate bedrooru his insistent stare
"Alice, why are you here?" he asked wearily
That was the question at the heart of it all, the one that I couldn’t precisely answer As"meant" for Peter and "bonded" with Jack, and to a lesser extent, Ezra, none of it was really a suitable answer for Milo It was just like I was supposed to be here, with them, but an answer like that would only lead to more questions
"It’s just where I want to be for now," I finally said It didn’t sound good enough, and I could tell by his expression that it wasn’t "They’re really nice toa combination of hurt and incredulous "I mean, if you’re not with Jack, and you’re not just about the ? Are you drinking? Is it drugs?"
"No, no, it’s nothing like that" I shook ht the s"
"I’ to understand why you won’t co with et Moet ho out with me all the time, but I’ll help you with your homework and I canout with the here" Sing hard, I tried not to look at hi innocent brown eyes, and they were so forlorn "I just need sos out, okay? But don’t think for a second that I’ to leave you behind You mean too uy and a lot of ure out?" Milo furrowed his brow, but I could tell that he’d relaxed a little
I decided to tell hi to do with the rest of htened at that, and I knew that I’d inadvertently opened the door for all sorts of college talk that I really didn’t want to listen to
"Auely crossed my mind, as in, hey since I’ll be a rich vae any sarcastic, but I started doing some research on med school and psychiatry for you, and there are lots of fabulous opportunities because we’re so close to the Mayo Clinic" The tangent had started, and he wasexcitedly
"Milo, you’ve seen rades," I tried to nip his enthusiaset into ot time to turn it around," he brushed rams too, and if you really worked hard your first couple of years, it would be so fantastic for you"
"I’o on, nodding and agreeing when the conversation required He was happy to be talking about so that still included ed to run out of steaht over so yesterday, so there was so that Milo made, particularly since nobody here could cook