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"Did you drink those?" The shock in his voice was al His mother didn’t drink His mother did not ever lose control
"I did" For soood to adrief from Trey They leaked out at work, hts I could wring outpool
Trey broke into a broad grin "Oh, you were drunk!" The explanation pleased him--crazy was difficult and scary; drunk he could handle "Why didn’t you say so?"
"I wasn’t drunk" Drinking was one thing; adave hi, but not drunk There’s a difference I was fully aware of what I was doing"
"And what is that, exactly?" Trey shot me a skeptical look
I didn’t have an answer I could articulate "I’mI’m not sure"
Trey pouredwater for himself After I thanked him, he shook his head and said, "Just resod it like Mr Eckhardt said He’s an ass, but he’s kind of right"
"But what if I want to keep digging?"
"Why? I think you’re going to need a good reason to keep Mr Eckhardt fro in your face all the time You don’t even have a reason at all"
"I don’t have to justify ulped down his sparkling water He needed tis, and so did I Where was this irass in rief in action, or the opposite of that--healing? I needed to figure that out Until I did, I’d keep digging
"Let hiiving authority to uess," Trey said "But tis"
"Good luck with that"
CHAPTER 7
That night and all the next day, I dug The weather turned, sun shining with vigor, and my skin turned pink and then mottled red I didn’t care I kept at it, even when Mr Eckhardt threatened to call the police (he didn’t), and Mrs O’Shaunessy from down the block warned ht hit a gas line (fingers crossed!) The dirt patch grew, a When Mondayarrived, I was sore and sunburned, dirt in every crevice ofsome kind of a breakdown, and if he could film it if I was I told him I didn’t know, and I’d think about it
I was so exhausted I sat in front of e of caraht about it, but ure out what it was
Mid, Lukas tapped an to burn through
"May I have a word?" he asked, overly polite, and I felt like the headmaster had called ra shui–approved office, where he sat, spine straight as ly constructed fro art and design students