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Frowning, I ask, "What the hell aonna do with a vase?" My apartment is hardly filled with flowers, and my decision to sell it means I would have even less use for a vase

Sadness covers Mu look "Are you really leaving to back?" I hate the pain I can hear in her voice

I sit next to her on Claudia’s couch We’ve started going through her belongings and Mu to think we need to put it on hold Luckily, Claudia lived inable to take all the ti, Mum, but it’s too dao, I see her and think of her, and I need a break frorip on the fact she’s never co back"

Her eyes tear up "I understand that, Jett, but you don’t have to sell your apartment to do that"

"Just because I sell the apart else I’ve been wanting a change for awhile now so this is as good a ti rid of everything in your life…" Her voice trails off, confusingrid of?"

She watches me quietly for a beat "Presley"

Her name causes my heart rate to speed up

Every fucking ti out of it for a couple of minutes, I think about what she’s said Finally, I turn back to her "I can’t do it, Mum," I whisper, unable to force my voice out

"Can’t do what?"

My heart leaps into reatest fear "I can’t let her in… what if I lose her, too?"

Mum’s tears course down her face and she comes to me and puts her arms around me "You can’t live your life that way, Jett I don’t want that for you" She hugs ive in to it; I let her o, she searches ood for you I’ve never seen you so happy, not even from your music"

"Well, it’s all fucked now," I adret threatens to s me