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"Are you feeling better? Do you need souilt

"I’ to the store for soer quickly insists, her hands on th as she attempts to turn me around and push me back into "

Shit Ginger isn’t er I need to see all of the packaging There’s only one type of pill that doesn’t make me sick and I can’t remember the na this answer "Well, I’ll take pictures of all the packages and send the away toward the gate I can’t coer pauses as if thinking this over "Well, then wait up! Let me throw some clothes on I’ll come with you"

"No!" I don’t mean it to coer have to be so pushy andsuch a good friend I just need to leave I need to run out of here and not have to explainso close to friends would cause problems I was better off in the roach-infested place No one asked questions there No one cared

She bites her lip, and her eyes finally flicker to the straps aroundtucked behind ri "You’re not really sick, are you? You’re trying to ditch rief You’re paranoid" I’m such a shitty friend

Tanner clears his throat several tiht there, able to hear the conversation

Ginger ignores hier I swear I’h "You’re pretending to be sick so you can ditch uy That’s what this is" I can’t tell whether she’s annoyed or hurt or curious, or maybe a combination of all three "Is this about Cain?"

Another throat clearing fro ar, she says, "Then it’s about the guy on the phone He isn’t really your father, is he?"

As if on cue, the burner phone in ain I should already be at the café to meet Jimmy I have no er," I say as I walk briskly away Except I don’t know that she’ll talk to me I may have just losthair appointirlfriends," Bob snaps the second the door to the hotel bedroom is shut

"I’otten an earful froet Sam’s silent treatet this over with," Eddiethe television screen and appearing indifferent

Bob is a different story "I don’t fking care if a road blew up This is the big leagues You get here on tioes set pissed off You don’t wantif I’ve ht now, as his h and invasive search offifteen minutes late is a personal attack upon hihs and I involuntarily stiffen, he stands tohis otherwise cheerless face "Don’t think because you’re late that we’re going to skip a wire search" Hemy eyes as his hands reach around to prod et aith just about anything right now I say nothing, keeping inning to trickle, though I’ me around to face the wall, Bob doesn’t warnthe bottoers curl around the back ofat the clasps

What the fk? This is new This didn’t happen last tis," he explains, though I can’t help but hear the wicked s to assert authority over ue to keep the complaints at bay