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"Are you okay?" I countered I recognized the look on his face--it was nearly identical to the grief he’d worn at the rest stop, talking about his own ca about how strange it is that we haven’t even known each other for teeks, but it feels like I’ve known you forthat it’s frustrating to feel like I know certain parts of you so well, but other parts of you…I don’t even knohat your life was like before you went to camp"

What could I tell him? What could I say about what I had done to o?

"This is a place where we don’t have to lie," he said,between us "Didn’t you tell me that?"

"You re that goes both ways That if I ask you why you don’t want to go home to your parents, you’ll tell me the truth, or if I ask you what Thur But then I realized that it’s not fair, because it’s not like I want to talk about my fa as he tried to piece together his thought "I don’t know if I can explain it," he said "It’s hard to put into words Those things--those s that the cas I don’t have to share if I don’t want to I guess that’s stupid"

"It’s not stupid," I said "That’s not stupid at all"

"And I want to talk about everything with you Everything But I don’t knohat to tell you about Caledonia," he said "I don’t knohat I can tell you that won’t make you hate me I was stupid, and I’m embarrassed and ashamed, and I know--I know--that Charles and Zu blame me for what happened And I know that Cole has told Moht just makes me sick"

"You did what you thought was right," I said "I’ hard I reached over with my other hand to brush the hair out of his eyes The way he turned his face towardhis chin, ers followed the natural wave of his hair, tracing the strands down around his ear

"What do you want to do?" I whispered

"I’ve got to wake the others up," he said "We have to keepOn foot"

My hand stilled, but it was clear that he had htly

There, at the right corner of his mouth, where his scar met his lips--a faint smile "I think we could let them sleep, at least for a few more hours"