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I don’t want to even be in the same state as the hole "Can we just watch the sunrise?"

"I mean it," he says "You’ve already caused this faave you this, it’ll end badly for Olivia"

Anger wells up inside me to the point I feel like a volcano Olivia, Olivia, Olivia I auess your precious Olivia is safe because besides having this picture I don’t know anything!"

"Good," he snaps

"Good," I shout back

"Great!"

"Can atch the freaking sunrise?" I seethe

"That we can do"

A ruear Thank God, this is over I jurowl into the clearing All the riders appear the san of Terror vests

Four of thee on the other side of the yard The other two park along the edge of the driveway With their backs to the light, their faces are blacked out by shadow

My fingers twist and untwist together as I strain to hear another engine--ato a car, but as each bike shuts down, I experience a loneliness in the silence

There’sto hear The clink ofon the wood to be closer tobehindtries to steal my attention fro for ht you’d be asleep," Eli says at the bottom of the stairs

"I’ht strikes the road No car No huine No crackle of rocks under a tire "How far behind are my mom and dad?"

Eli walks up the stairs and puts a fir, EAt least I believe he is, but all I hear is a low-pitched roar They’re not co

I spin, because if I do, then I’ll see so else But I only see Oz He lowers his head so that his hair hides his eyes The roar is replaced by a high-pitched ringing and it grows louder and louder, drowning everything out Al I can clearly hear the screaain, but then think oddly how my feet didn’t round and yet the world is twirling

Twirling