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"I don’t even know your na? Why do I even care about her name? I don’t know her I don’t want to know her I’d never seen her in my life before today We had our brief encounter this afternoon where she tolda really fucked-up black unifor for her but make her look bad Her hair is dark, dark brown and her eyes are a wide, innocent blue She looks coirl I’ve ever been interested in before, and I’

"It’s Chelsea," she answers, and I turn it over in ain

Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea

"I was, uh, hoping I could n in the middle of this shitty diner, where Des and Wade can overhear every single thing I’ to Chelsea the innocent tutor with the blue, blue eyes and the pink, pink lips They don’t even knohat’s going on I’ to hear an endless amount of crap once we leave this place

"Tomorrow? Friday?" Her delicate brows draard and her entire face scrunches up like she’s adorably confused Which she is Adorable

Dude Cut with the "adorable" shit

"Tomorrow is Thursday," I re it’s alht" She makes me feel like a dumbass I don’t like it "Can we nain until Monday"

A lot can happen between now and Monday Shit, I can’t even begin to consider all the possibilities I feel like I’ this way and that, just waiting for the right a to my death

This is whatto do right and instead falling into the sa I want to tell Fable the truth I want to tell Mom to leave me alone

I know, deep inKeep up the pretense of right and wrong Of living two lives One where I’ood brother who does what Drew and Fable want ood" son who slips hisfor it, which is all the tis her to buy him some beer

Sometimes, I really hate myself

"I have class all afternoon" She sniffs and lifts her chin, all haughty virginal princess I have no idea if she really is a virgin, but she just screa appointlance overme, curiosity written all over their drunk, tired faces I turn back to face Chelsea to find her studying ure ure h, which expands her chest, h, but I can’t really tell with that ugly uniform she has on And I hadn’t really checked theh I had scoped out her ass

It was nice Looked real good in those tight jeans she wore, too

"If you can make it quick, I’ll meet you then Say around six fifteen? Sa rades, but Fable is gonna kill ether "I can do that"

"Okay" She takes a step backward, her foot poised to turn around "I’ll see you later, then"

"See ya," I say to her retreating back, not h the swinging door that leads into the kitchen

I hear my friends snicker behindout of the booth, stu to calm their drunken asses down and for whatever stupid reason, that pisses ot here andhere helped take it away

My drunken buzz Seeing her, touching her arave nore

"So who is this chick?" Wade approaches me first, followed by Des

I shoot them both a look that says shut the hell up, and we exit the diner into the cold, early fall night The house I share with Wade isn’t too far from the don area since we live pretty close to campus, and we start our trek down the side street that leads to our neighborhood Des will crash on our couch like he always does

"Remember how I saidmy hands in my jeans pockets I blow out a breath that I can see and hunch my neck lower in my hoodie to ward off the chill

"Yeah" Des makes a skeptical noise "What the hell was that all about? Like, whose counselor ever wants to meet with a student?"

"Is she hot?" Wade asks "Don’t tell me the sexy little waitress is your counselor, dude ’Cos she’s hot"

Irritation fills nite "No, the waitress is not my counselor, you dumbass My counselor’s name is Dolores, and I’m pretty sure she’s two hundred years old"

"That waitress was nowhere near hot," Des says, kicking at a rock It skitters across the broken sidewalk and lands on the side of the road "Did you see what she earing? Black polyester sucks"

"How the hell do you know that she’s wearing polyester? What, are you in fashion design now?" Wade sneers

Fuck These two love to go round and round Wade is my oldest friend Des is one of my newer friends They claim to like each other, but sometimes …

I wonder

"Knock it off," I tell them both, not in the ht?

"So who is she?" Des asks "The not-hot waitress wearing polyester"

I wouldn’t call her hot But she’s definitely not ugly She’s … sweet All clean, wholesoh, she’d have a sprinkle of freckles across her nose "I met with my counselor, and Coach and Drew and Fable were there"

"Your brother-in-laas there?" Des’s s open He’s in awe of Drew Wade’s not, because he’s known him forever, but Des and I only becae The fact that uys into a du a few classes," I say, ot me a tutor The waitress?"

"Is your tutor," Wade finishes forhis head "Man, you need to keep clean No more dope for a while"

Weed It’s beensince I was in junior high, back e lived with ive a shit e did Once Fable took over, she forced me to quit Drew made me want to quit But then …