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I didn’t look back as I rushed outside and all but darted intoheavy, I cliine "Holy fuck Shit Da lot, heading for the interstate I kept repeating those words, over and over Holy fuck Shit Da wheel to stop hway It was virtually e ehts suddenly appeared in the rearviewwheel to the right

Everything happened so fast

My car veered sharply to the right, too sharp I tried to overcorrect, and panicked, sla my foot down The car lurched and the back started to spin Lights spun I dragged in a breath to--

A thundering force stopped the car and lifted it up Metal crunched and gave way I was tossed forward and to the side, suspended for awhite exploded Powder flew everywhere The crunching kept cohts burst behind

Chapter 21

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I stared atattention to the huairl he’d met over the weekend

I hadn’t heard fro every ounce of ht it so hard sort of tickedover the last three days, and that I had to resist calling her spoke volumes

I cared about her--really cared about her

What I felt for her went beyond what I’d felt for other girls that had been in my life Even before the trip to the cabin, I looked forward to seeing her, to getting on each other’s nerves To watch her cheeks flush with ah And noanted to feel her lips graze mine and to hear the soft sounds she made when I pleased her To just be around her and have a thousand tos had a na I’d felt this way or okewas going to change that It was just hoired internally Once I felt so or made a decision, I stuck to it The end

And I’d made the decision to let Andrea co to it There was so it didn’t have anything to do with the anxiety attack she’d had I wanted to be there for her, but she had to let me be there I couldn’t force it Shit never turned out hen you did it that way

But the shit she’d said, about her not being worth it? It made it so damn hard to stay away, because how in the hell would I prove to her that she was veryaway from her?