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A Target phary pills Imodiu them I reached for the closest one, Sonata The little blue and green pills of sleepy happiness rattled as I picked up the bottle They really didn’t help er, but less than thirtyone, I was out cold or completely loopy Wasn’t like that for everyone--my doc toldaids, but forthe dose I was more than ready to end the day and rush toward to toward tomorrow

I smiled wryly as I twisted the lid off and shook a pill out Tossing it into my mouth, I washed it dohat I realized, after I sas a Pepsi Max A startled laugh escapedoxye when I’d developed aand those weird hours had for a few hours--usually around four in the --and I hadn’t been able to break it I’d neverthem God knows I knew these pills kicked off a whole different kind of habit, but now I had a hell of a tiht about it, being that I enty-two and already popping sleeping pills at nine-thirty at night when I’d slept half the day away as it was

Syd didn’t like that I took theinthat Syd ell on her way to becoist, she had a lot of opinions about a lot of things

I’d just screwed the cap back on the bottle when there was a knock on the door, startling me

"What the hell?" I left the bottle on the counter, next to the Pepsi, and walked into the living roo anyone, so I had no idea who it could be since Syd would’ve texted or called before showing up

What if it was a hbor as in the redient?

Please be a hot dude who needed sugar

Hurrying across the roo through the peephole "Holy shit"

I had to be hallucinating, which seemed possible since those pills so was bizarre I recognized the light brown buzz cut, the chiseled cut of a jaw in profile

Tanner was here

Of course, he knehere I lived, but he’d never, in the history of ever, shown up unannounced for any reason My heart dropped as I rocked back Concern blosso happened? Ohhad happened to Kyler or Syd or evendown, I unlocked the door and threw it open