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Sounds like iven a shit about me in weeks Gotta be one razes my lips and cold liquid sinks down ain, the pain slips away and I finally can sleep

There’s a caress across my forehead and my hair moves with it I should openI do, but instead I atteain I want to sleep on my side Maybe then, I can sleep deep without the dreams

"Has he responded to you at all?" the soft voice says, and I angle my head to the sound It’s Oz’s mom--Rebecca She’s nursed me back to health several tiet sick?

"What he’s doing now?" Dad says "He turns his head tohoever’s speaking"

"What did you give him?" Rebecca asks

There’s an answer I can’t discern and Rebecca curses "I told you Tylenol You fucking men drive me crazy Give him any more of that and I’ll castrate all three of you He’s always been sensitive to drugs, or do none of you reery? I should shoot you Lord knows there’s enough guns in this place that I can find a spare"

"We gave hiave him--"

Rebecca cuts him off with a "Fuck each of you," then descends into another rant

I alery I was six and Dad said MoI should re ertips across my face and Breanna appears in ht and she touches my hand "Thomas, I need you to open your eyes"

Thomas I told her to callmy real name My hand twitches as I capture hers She’s here and I want her to stay Everyone else can leave and I need her to lie beside ht," Breanna says again, but she sounds off--more like Rebecca, but it’s her hazel eyes that bore into, but they’re glued shut

"We need to take hie in Breanna’s tone and also a hint of fear I don’t like her scared Not with me I rub my thumb over her skin Don’t be scared with unshot wound," Eli says "The hospital will call the police Razor understood what he was taking on when he agreed to let us patch hih this to save an account with your co this because we don’t want the police to know he’s been hit It’ll be public information then Fuck the company This could be the Riot, and I will not have then his death certificate now"

"He’s our family, Eli! Basically ic reaction!"