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"Listen--"

"No I watched you fk yourself over this weekend We all watched it today at practice I don’t know if you’ve just stopped caring or what, but you’re bad for the team"

I peek around Silas’s back just in time to see the way those words contort his expression And I say soirl who says so Maybe not for myself, I don’t always kno to speak up for me, but for others? That’s what I do

"This is the exact opposite of what he needs right now"

His roolances at me, and if possible his expression turns even colder

"No offense, but I don’t think what you were giving him is what he needs, either"

Myforward out of the corner of ive my best diplomatic smile and say, "No offense, but you don’t know me And I don’t think you know your friend all that well, or you’d know that he cares a lot And he’s already on his knees and doesn’t need you pushing him down farther"

Torres snorts and says, "On his knees, was he?"

I skip straight over e out of control Clearly he doesn’t have any support from his so-called friends One of you just wants to make jokes and the other wants to yell at his worse!"

"Listen," Zay says "I’irl And you obviously ht you here You ht think you’re here to support him while he’s upset, but trust one the minute he was done with you"

"Brookes" Silas’s voice is hard, and when he lays a hand on"Lay off This has nothing to do with you"

"You want irl doith you?"

"Brookes I uy opens his ht as Brookes says, "Fuck you," I slide in front of Silas and place a hand on his still bare chest to stop hiht in less than a week

"Hey," I say His chest is pushing forward against h to ry at hilares over my shoulder "Maybe not But it will take rab his jaw and make him look at me "We made a deal You have to listen to ry at hio"

He lets out a harsh breath, and under ether

"Fine" His eyes shift from me to his two rooo tome close Then he says to his friends, "I fked up today I know that I knew it even as it was happening And I’ure my shit out I proy

My heart clenches for aaround him He does have issues And I don’t love that his first inclination is always to get angry, but there’s soer on it, but even with the violence and the issues and the dangerous sex appealthere’s so about hi, and when I turn to look at the the kitchen But Silas apparently isn’t done