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He was right

Then he said, "Mo about Marissa "What?"

He nodded, becoain "She wants us to stay with her before she oing to stay there the whole time now?"

He frowned "She hadn’t told you?"

"No" She always toldyou a heads up"

Even the thought of Moht back on s were tense at ho the concern in his voice, I flashed hiive a damn what happened "Yeah"

"You okay?"

"I’ at ho with our dad and his women, and now our oing to get worse I could feel it in ut I shook an Me That was all I could deal with I was going to sit where I wanted No one was going to control that Marissa would be fine Kate couldn’t do lancing around the cafeteria and sensing the change in the air, I was tempted not to even come to the cafeteria anymore

Life was just…hard soet better They got worse I sat with Marissa a few more times at lunch and then stopped Those tienda, but the tension in the cafeteria was always too much After a while, one of her friends told e," Marissa hissed, "it’s not his fault"

Her friend turned to her with a hard expression on her face "He’s not stopping it either"

"It’s that bad?"

Her friend snorted "Look at her She’s lost twenty pounds She didn’t have twenty pounds to lose She’s a stick"