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"Sure you are Now shut up"

I did as requested

As Jordan pulled away fro early, or rather, leaving Carly there It felt like I was abandoning her But I wasn’t Not for long, anyway

I’d see her again tonight I knew exactly where she’d be

No catastrophes happened on the short drive tomyself for the worst did take some effort

"Thanks for this, but I don’t understand," I said to Jordan as I stepped out of her car after she arrived in my driveway "You don’t like me I don’t like you Why did you bother to drive me home?"

She rolled her eyes "Because I’m nice, stupid"

She pulled away and I watched the car disappear into the distance

Jordan Fitzpatrick had been nice to me today Well, her version of nice, anyway

I’d take it

When I letwave of exhaustion, plus the headache from earlier hadn’t let up yet I tried to tell h Bishop’s eyes because I’d been thinking about hiht It really was too bad I was such a realist I believed what I saith ination sending forth a fantasy, I would have much preferred to see him Not everybody else

When I lay down on the couch in the living room, I planned to close ot up and dealt with everything But when I opened

It was dark outside

I sat bolt upright The house was eerily quiet, except for the soft tick of the clock on the ently informed me it was after seven o’clock

The stress that had kept ht up to iven me a bad headache and exhausted me

I hurried into the kitchen to see that my mother hadn’t co and tacked it to the fridge to tellShe’d be home by around nine o’clock and--

Snap!

I was outside of the church, on the overgrown front lawn