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I did drive around, but then I went to the one place no one knows A place that can soothe my soul "I haven’t slept yet"
It’s an answer in a nonanswer and he accepts it "Second day of school was today"
The coht with Dad and no sleep would have made me a lit fuse Olivia said a sht and which ones to abandon I waved the white flag on the war otherwise known as school
Cyrus reenters the living room with a cardboard box in hand "Your dad reached out to the club to find you You should call hi for you You should reach out to the MIA"
Funny how Dad didn’t call or textthat I was good, but they were pissed I wouldn’t confess where I was holed up They didn’t tell anyone we had contact because the three of us are still tight
"None of us liked you being AWOL" Eli strolls into the house and pats my shoulder as he walks past "Why didn’t you coht? You knoe’re safe havens"
They wait for an answer I’ve admired Cyrus my entire life and then worshipped Eli the moment he rolled into tohen I was ten Before today, before I was patched in, I relied on Eli and Cyrus like a second skin, but after Dad’s admission that the club considers my membership the equivalent of a handout, I’m not sure what my relationship with the the cut, but I can’t bring aze flickers from Cyrus to the box Cyrus holds in his hand "This is the moment? Did Olivia choose this specific day or was it an event?"
"Event," Cyrus answers in a gruff tone "Makes you scared, doesn’t it?"
"Yeah, it does" Eli cracks his neck to the side "Let’s do this"
Eli motions for me to sit on the couch I do and Cyrus settles into his recliner as Eli pulls a wooden chair out of the kitchen and straddles it across frouy is hardcore, but ask hiives Eli the box This package is like a coiled and pissed-off cobra If you’re careful, you can escape unscathed, but if you , the result will mess up your day
Eli strokes his thumb over the box "Do you knohat’s in here?"
"Some of it" Odds are it’s Olivia’s ashes Chevy, Oz and I have theorized this was Olivia’s grand plan According to her final wishes, Olivia’s ashes were separated several ways, but how many ways and who the ashes were for was kept a secret
"Do you knohat’s in it?" I return the question
"Some of it" Eli steals my answer "The unknown scares ers as he leans forward "Olivia’s instructions were to give it to Razor when he walked out on his dad or when he no longer trusted the club"