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“Maybe it shouldn’t be,” said Mike “Girl doesn’t exactly fit in around here There’s a reason we live on opposite sides of town, dude Some people aren’t supposed to mix”

I ran oing on “OK, for right now, fuck you guys I’ll figure out what I want to say in addition to that later ‘Fuck you’ should work for now, though”

That was all I could stand of those assholes I sidestepped the group, one It took so around the vast expanse of the manor to find her, but eventually I saw her outside on the balcony, leaning against the gray stone railing The moment I stepped out, the sky finally broke open, soft flutters of snow drifting down

“Hey”

She glanced over her shoulder for long enough to note that it washer attention away I stepped to her side and for a long

Finally, I broke the silence “Sorry about that I don’t knohat the fuck got into them”

“I knohat the fuck got into them”

“Yeah?”

“The sa that’s been in them since they were kids”

I gave an affirht about that”

Cass shook her head “It’s like they knew exactly what to say to get to ht”

“Right about what? They were being assholes, nothing more to it than that”

“No, there was more to it than that They know I’m not one of them, and that I never will be”

“You want to be one of the out with them unless I’m in town”

She took a“It’s all of this” She swept her hand over the property “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve felt l like I’ve been ashamed of who I a to get away from that But it doesn’t irl in secondhand clothes”

“Are you that ashamed about it?”

“I don’t even know I loveup But it was impossible not to look at people, people like you, and see soht I’d be And I hate that this thing we’re doing is bringing this all up to the surface But it is”

I turned toward her, taking her chin into ? I’reed to it”

“Right, because you get to be CEO, and you don’t even have to worry about actually getting married”