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"What if I still say no? What if I tell you to go to hell?"

He lookssquad "Then I walk away from here and tell the people who run the Snowflake Sluts account to push send"

RAZOR

Cyrus: I have so Olivia wanted you to have

ACROSS THE YARD, the clubhouse is shut up and the yard is euys from the club who are employees for the security couys ork nor It’s quiet--lonely--and the only sound is the rustle of leavescabin house, o up If it weren’t for Cyrus’s text, I wouldn’t be here Dad said the patch on my back is borrowed--that no one believes I’ve earned it It’s an open-pal anywhere near the club wounds ht up Olivia I lower my head She was the one person in the world who didn’t think I was fucked-up beyond belief

"Are you co in or not?" Cyrus appears on the other side of the screen door

I climb two steps at a time and Cyrus holds the door open The place looks the sao, but even if ten years had gone by, I can’t i We loved her tootoht the flat-screen television and sectional couch for Olivia, hison the wooden floor and picture fra visual reminders of the people she loved

There’s a ton of pictures of people in the club: Olivia and Cyrus; Eli and his brother, Jahter, Emily; and then plenty of the brat pack: Oz, Chevy, Violet and me We weren’t born to her, but ere her children She loved us ere unlovable

Cyrus enters the kitchen and I hesitate near a framed three-by-five of me and Olivia Olivia’s besidebecause she was laughing Olivia had a contagious laugh and the world is too silent without it

"Where did you stay last night?" Cyrus calls out

Figures Dad would notify the club I left Leaving: another thing I’ve done to add to the list of how unpredictable and untrustworthy I aht?" Cyrus pops his head around the door fraray beard as he watches me for the lie