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I rollnow "Oh come on! Everyone in school knew you did it You practically lived behind Decker’s with that big box of spray paint"

"That’s because Sue and Roger letalley were known to be really nice, fine with letting kids cover theas there was no profanity or gang sy was on the botto looks like because every new thing you added to Decker’s wall had that little pink squiggly line" Her brow quirks sharply and I shrug "What? So I adood"

She shakes her head in disbelief "First of all, whoever did that to Poppa’s was an idiot and a complete amateur I’m better than that I was better than that when I was seven years old Second, do you really think I’d be stupid enough to vandalize a store and tag it?"

"Maybe you wanted people to know that you did it" I shrug "You did seery back then"

She throws her arms up in the air in a rare bout of h school sucked! But it had nothing to do with the Jews or the Middle East I was set up!"

I give a furtive glance around, hoping no one’s paying too aze catches River’s and a distracting blip of excitement flutters inside my sto okay?"

With a quick nod, I turn back to her, not wanting her to accuse o to all the trouble to do that to you, Ivy? We weren’t even in the saether!"

She exhales heavily and her scowl softens "Do you re? The one where Ashley Johnson tripped over a case of beer and broke her nose?"

"Yeah" I chuckle She ended up needing two rounds of plastic surgery to fix it I was at hoht

"Well, Jesse and I had just started talking again, after breaking up the Septeht we got really drunk and broke into the park office"

My eyes widen "That was you? Man,and stupid and drunk, right? Anyway, Bonnie barged in on usyou know"

I groan, seeing where this is going At least she isn’t trying to give me details, as Bonnie has tried to do on more than one occasion

"She was pissed Screa with a psycho slut like et arrested for graffiti that I didn’t do By your father I figured Bonnie told you and you got mad because you didn’t want your brother with the ‘psycho slut,’ so you and her concocted that graffiti plan"

"Ughthis sounds like the plot of a really bad teen ht on those years "When did you say you and Jesse started dating for the first time?"

"The first day of my sophomore year, in art class" A soft sle person I spent ns on uess he looked overbecause he asked n a tattoo of a ’69 Plymouth Barracuda"

"The one on his back"

She nods