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Dad sooatee to hide it "I know it’s been hard, but you’ve done good with giving the Millers space"
It’s what they requested when they agreed to meet with Dad and Eli a few days after the train incident Breanna had told theuess they met with the club so they could confirm her story
Dad and Eli explained how the club intended to find evidence on the guys blackreed and voted on after I had come to them for help
The club has kept the Millers updated on what they’ve discovered and Breanna and I have been allowed no contact Last ie I have of her is with dirt on her face and pain in her eyes as she walked into her house the day Kyle lost his mind Last words she said to me were "I love you," and I told her, "It’ll be okay"
"I promise the club ork this out," Dad says
I nod because there isn’t ht after their firsther parents would h of bad I wanted her to have good
"Ready to go?"
I stand and so does Dad He pats my back as we head for our bikes We have one more stop for the security business before we return home
Breanna
THIS GIRL IS smarter than me Way smarter Where I re For instance
"You wore those socks two days ago" Her name is Denver and she bites on her pinkie nail She’s always nibbling on her nails, and it’s odd how in the four weeks we’ve been roo me "There’s a sed on her perfectly made bed Denver continuously calls attention to these types of things At first it annoyed the crap out of me, and it was easy to understand why every roommate she had jumped ship, but then I noticed how she sat by herself in the dining hall and how irls whispered as she walked by, and the annoyance dissolved
So friends, because my level of freak-of-nature brain activity was the same as most everyone else here, but Denver had become the outcast She didn’t kno to talk to people, because she was either too intelligent or too aard Either way, I wasn’t interested in being like the people who tortured me in Snowflake Instead, I decided to be her friend
Denver’s eyes flicker to ain and I note her white ones that are perfectly folded over I pull a pair of pink socks with crazy red stripes out of my dresser and toss them to her "You can have these if you want I have two pairs of that type"