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"Becky Come on" I sat beside her

"He wants you, Saether before, but I still…" She whispered, "I still wanted it to be"And I wasn’t lying when I said I think you’ll get it"

"Come on" She choked on a sob and brushed at her face "Stop et the fairytale ending I just don’t think it’ll happen in high school"

She snorted as tears continued to slide down "That’s right You said Adah for me"

"He isn’t" I threw an ar there He stopped playing the charade tonight, you know" I felt her shoulders droop and so folded inside of her She seemed to crued down an inch "Becky?"

"He’s stopped for a while"

I was struck That sounded like a confession fro about?"

She looked up with tears still on her cheeks They were at the ri to the corner of her lips She let theaze There was a stricken look to her "He’s been honest withtiht--I dunno I couldn’t let it go anyan called him out He wanted just to have sex with Tanya I knew that Adaht He was really hurt and I think he was mad at you He’s always irls before, in front of me"

"When?"

Her shoulder jerked up "When hasn’t he? He’s always had another girl with him He never chooses me, Sam He never will I just didn’t want to accept that I was a loser I ah for him"

A curse rushed from me as I pulled her close "Don’t think that Don’t ever think that"

One of her hands clung to ainst me "He doesn’t want me He doesn’t want me…"

She cried, and I held her We remained like that for a while I didn’t keep track of the tione, but whenin an said you left Where at?’

‘Still here Adam’s car is blocked in’

‘Where?’

‘By the tree Becky is crying’

There was a pause for a ain ‘Sohed as I looked down Becky was still crying, though they had subsided in the last few minutes She wiped at her nose and asked, "Who is that?"