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I tore an as ere ushered out into the hall

"Georgia, look at me," he commanded

I shook my head and stared ahead Other members of the kink club joined us in the hall All of them were handcuffed like ere I spotted Annie down at the end Her shirt was inside out She was shooting her mouth off to one of the police officers Once they appeared satisfied that they had us all out in the hall, a fehts

I didn’t think I could sink any lower inus of our rights, so inside me fissured My tears dried and I felt nu broke inside ht Let’s go" The officer who handcuffed Logan andout onto the porch, the nuainst the dark night only hammered ho arrested Me The girl who had worried about arten This went far beyond the shaside the road to observe as happening A few people even stood outside their cars, necks craning as they watched the group of us being led down the porch steps Neighbors gawked from the yards on either side of us and across the street Several even had their phones out snapping pictures I fought to s past the lu better to do than bask in the er episode I ever watched where I let another person’s misery entertain me

I was put into a police car with Rachel of all people Logan went in another one with another guy, and I was actually relieved for that I wanted to be alone with ret, stir it into a bubbly stew inside h this

I just wanted to wake up toet any of this ever happened

And yet I wasn’t alone Rachel ith me

"God" She eyedto piss your panties, are you?"

I glared at her Feeling mean and tired of her less-than-kind attitude toward an"

Her eyes flared wide and then narrowed to slits "Nice I’runted, done with talking to the girl "Look, I’ Logan around"

"What are you talking about?"

"You’re the first girl he’s ever given ive a shit"

"You don’t know anything aboutmy cuffs behind me for emphasis "I’m in handcuffs in the back of a police car because I cahter, her dark hair shaking all around her "Oh, you’re going to bla that" I closed htly in a pained blink "It’s not his fault It’s ht up in--" I stopped and sed I wasn’t about to confess to Logan’s obviously jealous best friend that I was in love with hiht for hian "And now here I am If this isn’t proof that I need to let whatever this is just die between us then I don’t knohat is"

"I agree" She nodded, dropping her head against the backseat "That sounds like a fanfuckingtastic idea I can’t iood for him"

"And I suppose you’re what he deserves?"

"Oh, I know he’s too good for me But you? You’re too much of a coward to even own up to how you feel about hi as he’s not with you"

Her words pelted ed rock, but in her face I saw that she was as much of a coward as I was She was in love with her best friend and she had never dared to confess that to him either I could have pointed that fact out to her, but I decided to spare her Logan didn’t love her Not in the way she wanted hie that so why remind her?

Instead, I let her continue to vent her spleen on irls who don’t look down their noses at hi in thesuburban existence, you can tell all your little country club friends that once upon a tiue Wanted to open my mouth and explain that I didn’t look down ood He was honest and real, but he lived his life outside the box and I had to stay insidepast the words, I inhaled, the odor of days-old sweat filling my nostrils Another se of blood I scooted forward on the seat, hating for any part of , I dropped lass of theI stared into the night as we pulled out of the driveway past the gawking onlookers Glancing down, I noticed hs, but there was nothing I could do about it, and this just ers behind one hoht here at this moment, on the way to jail, why I stayed see about Harris? To pretend I was soo to a kink club and have no-strings sex? Clearly, I’d failed on the whole no-strings sex I’d gotten led up in Logan Mulvaney I’d taken what should have been fun and casual and hed and I glanced at her "I was i like this," she ain, a sob trapped in my chest that refused to rise and spill I kept it locked up in there--with the rest of me

"YOU’RE FREE TO GO"

I looked up fro cell It was ht--in addition to one very inebriated self-proclaiht my dress