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Lea sits down on the floor besideback on her pal to fail the class"

I sigh, clicking the folder "I know, but I can’t use the video without a signed release foret his per for her purse She takes out a pack of gum and pops a piece into her mouth

"I’ve tried" I reach for the coet his number, and I’ve yet to be able to track his phone number down I’ve tried to call Delilah a few tiht to voice mail I even sent my mom over to the trailer, but she said it was vacant, so apparently they moved somewhere else It’s like that whole part of my life didn’t even exist, like it never really happened But it did, and I remind myself every day that it did, because it’s important to remember how easy it is to lose track of myself and just how lucky I am that I made it out But I can’t find him anywhere It’s like he’s disappeared off the face of the earth"

"He didn’t disappear off the face of the earth," she says "You could try calling that… old friend of yours again" Lea knows all about Delilah and she’s not a fan I think she blah on her, but I don’t bla I did was , I scoop h I’ve left her a ton of voice s "It can’t hurt to try"

"No, it can’t" I press Delilah’s number on my phone and then hold it up toup, when suddenly there’s a click

"Hello," Delilah says froround and a lot of banging and yelling

"Hey, it’s me," I tell her "Nova"

"Who!" she shouts "Hold on! Let o somewhere quiet" There’s a pause and then I try to wait patiently The noise gradually fades and finally it goes quiet "There we go," she says and I can tell by the slur in her speech that she’s high or drunk "Noho the hell is this?"

"It’s Nova," I tell her, shaking er, stepping out of the roolass door and step out onto the back deck and into the sunlight "Nova, the girl you used to be friends with"

"Oh" She lets out a giggle "I’m sorry, I’m a little out of it, but now I rematters "Hey, I just wanted to see if you knehere Quinton was," I tell her, leaningshe can remember who he is

"Yeah, he’s with hter I wonder what she’s s or where she even is "Well, he’s actually in the house right now Not outside with me"

"But he lives with you" I’?"

"No… we just share an apartht?" She inhales and then releases a strong exhale, coughing at the end

"Yeah, I remember," I say, disappointed that she’s still with hi, and inclining against it "Look, can you put him on the phone I really need to talk to hiain "He’s passed out in his rooht now"

I presses Oh o try and wake him up? It’s important"

"He won’t wake up," she assuresup for like three days"