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Hailey starts to pull away She places her legs on the floor in betweenand says, "Remember that time when you told me that I lost my mirror?"

"Yeah" I remembered it exactly I’d told her that when she was ready for it that I would be here for her

She looks straight ahead out the bay , "You toldwith mirrors is they shatter all the time" Hailey sits for another few seconds and then stands up out walks to the front door leaving

My mirror has officially shattered and I’m sure I’ll be cursed for the next seven years

When I left the Cahill’s house I decided to just go ho with Tara and her bullshit, but I didn’t have anywhere else to go

"Hailey?" Molass bowl that’s on the table by the front door "Yeah it’s s If Tara wasn’t here I would think she had lass that n, but I knew this wasn’t going to go well

I walk to the kitchen and decide that Chocolate Vodka sounds good right about now I open up the cabinet above the sink and grab the bottle, then I reach into the other cabinet and get a glass

"Honey, is that such a good idea?" Mo me move about the kitchen She hasn’t said tords to lass halfith Coke and ice and then finish it off with the Chocolate Vodka Ithe first taste settle into my stomach and warm me up

"So we have some news" Mo

I take a seat on the other end of the table, opposite Tara, and keepholes intoht now as it is

"Oh yeah? What’s the news, Mom?" I finally ask since she doesn’t see attention

Monant"

My eyes fly todown at the table like she’s trying to figure out how all that as made into a table I’m not surprised by this; actually I’ratulations, I hope he or she turns out to be just like Satan" I say to Tara and then get up froht away

Mo home"

I walk over to where I left the Vodka on the counter, pick it up and start walking toout" I throw over ive a shit How could she allow Tara to , we are like oil and water Plus, hoould we all fit in a two bedroom house? I push my bedroom door open, start my iPod, take off my bra and shorts and then cliet about Mason, mirrors, my sister, my ht I just want to drown in this bottle

The next , while I’et away, start fresh somewhere else for a while I called Bentley and took hi that had happened and he offered forI needed, but he said he had to talk to the guys first Apparently Logan had o Bentley said there was plenty of rooan to share, or they could fix up the basean To be honest, after I’d found out Logan was there I started to hesitate Logan was Brittany’s cousin and I had a little fling with hie I told Bentley he didn’t have to go through all that and I would figure so else out He told me to think about it and I pro up with Bentley, Logan was calling s wouldn’t be weird I made him promise that he would never invite Brittany over while I was staying there He agreed, and I agreed toback to ODU in the fall

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It’s Wednesday afternoon and I welcoet the hell out of town I felt like I was suffocating in all of mine and Hailey’s memoriesWe would arrive back hoo to my parent’s house for dinner with Hunter and MacKenzie, who had just got ho forward to in the slightest; MacKenzie is going to cut off s

I keep toon around me while I feel like I’m stuck in time I miss Hailey I miss her sh so hard she snorts, and the way her tiny little diht cheek shohen she smiles I miss her kisses and her warrowl in frustration as I pound my feet harder and harder on the treadmill I woke up earlier than the rest of the team because I was restless and irritable, so I came down to the hotel fitness center for a run My life is so fked up I’ve co but still haven’t talked to Cooper about it and I really don’t even feel like it’s i tension between us and I hate that

Coach was pissed when he caught a look atthe bus on Tuesday I tried to hide it and I think that pissed him off even more He demanded x-rays when I told him it was fine Coach said if it wasn’t broken then I could come and catch a ride with our assistant coach, Chris, since he was coht Turns out it wasn’t broken but I wasn’t going to be pitching for at least a week That’s how inia, was long and quiet until just afteroff when I oken by a loud bang Coach Chris’s car hissed, knocked, stuttered and then shut down We had to call a tow truck and then find a cab company to drive us the rest of the way to the hotel Thankfully eren’t too far because the stench in the cab was nasty, like stale cigarettes and sex