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Mason kicks ot four beers to go"

I glare hard at Mason for interruptinget over the feeling that I’ve lost so that was so i distance but far enough away that I’ll never be able to hold her Things are so fked up

I reach up and grip my hair in my hands "I miss her" I mumble I don’t know if Mason could have even heardtime you admitted it"

I sit up and rest my elbows on ain "Fuck" I rubthe pain away "What the hell do I do, Mason?"

Mason takes a swig of his beer, "I don’t know because I don’t knohat happened"

And there it is; the root of ht, or what the problem really is, because I made a promise that I wouldn’t tell anyone I just don’t knohat to do to ether like she and I both want

"I can’t, Mason I made a promise and I can’t break that" I explain

Mason watchesminute "Sometimes those promises are meant to be broken"

I think back to the one proreed to let her come to that party, I promised I would keep an eye out for her and ot rab another beer for the both of us I walk back into the living roo to need that" I sit down next to hi hi

"Okay, I don’t see any proble a part of the story

My body starts to shake and sweat as flashes of Kevin hovering over a nad Jaylinn surface I grip the end of the couch and take a few cal breaths

"I looked for her everywhere No one had seen where she went I ran upstairs and started looking in all the roo at the last door and I knew sohtens "No one would answer the door but I knew so I broke the door down and…" I s hard and Mason curses "Kevin was laying there on top of Jaylinn I yanked hilance at Jay all I saas red, Mase Fucking red" I rub athi back He fking drugged her, Mason, she couldn’t ot a closer look at her she had a hand print on her right cheek, it was bruising already I pulled the blindfold off her and herdown her face"

Mason’s face is red, his eyes wide and panicked "He didn’t did he? Please, God, tell me he didn’t"

I shake my head, my eyes on the floor "He didn’t I hs in relief