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"Seriously, Grace, don’t stress You knohat they say--haters be hating, and bitches be bitching"
I laugh again "That’s going to be my new n with the words "Welcos!" sprawled across it, and I peer out theagain "I grew up around the corner," I tell his?"
"Yep My dad’s been a professor at Briar for twenty years I’ve spent my whole life here"
Rather than head for the don core, Logan veers off in the direction of the highway We don’t stay on it for long, though A few exits pass and then he gets off at the sign for Munsen, the next town over
An uneasy feeling washes over e how a quaint, s is equal in distance to both the caue university and a town that my father, a man who doesn’t curse if he can help it, refers to as a "shit box"
Munsen consists of shabby buildings in desperate need of repairs, a handful of strip eneral store we pass boasts a flickering neon sign with half the letters burnt out, and the one building I see that isn’t dilapidated is a se block letters that spell out "GOD PUNISHES THE SINNERS"
The people of Munsen really kno to roll out a welcoruffly
My head swivels toward hiiveson the pothole-ridden road ahead of us "It’s not lier in the daylight"
The pickup bounces as we drive over a particularly deep pothole Logan slon, extending a hand toward my side of the windshield "My dad’s shop is one street over He’s a mechanic"
"That’s cool Did he teach you a lot about cars?"
"Yup" He taps the dashboard in pride "You hear that sexy purr coine enuinely impressed And kinda turned on, because I appreciate a man orks with his hands No, who actually kno to use his hands Last week, the guy who lives down the hall froht bulb I’, but I’ht bulb
As we drive through a residential area, a burst of apprehension goes off insideme to his childhood home? Because I’m not sure I’ away fro There’s a water tower in the distance, with the town naht, a stark white beacon standing out aan parks fifty yards from the tower, andMy hands shake as I follow him toward a steel ladder that starts at the base of the tower and extends upward, so high I can’t see where it ends