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I paused, glancing at Dary “He told ether”

“Doesn’t appear to be toto the ceiling Her lips pursed “I’ve seen her going up to hi polite but is in desperate need of his best friend forever, also known as Lena, to swoop in and rescue him”

She grinned when I shook my head

“Wait a second Let’s back up a second You kissed hiht?” Lori asked “Does Mom know? Because if you think she doesn’t know he sneaks into your bedroo”

My eyes widened “She knows about that?”

Lori laughed like she thought I needed to be patted on the head “I think she has her suspicions”

Oh

That probably wasn’t good

“You two are going to get ross,” Dary announced

“I don’t know about that,” I protested, lifting ood arm “Can we not talk about this?”

“I did have another reason for co if you wanted to go to the celanced over at my sister “Or maybe Lori can drive us?”

I blanched as pressure clamped down on raves? Megan’s and Chris’s? The soil would still be disturbed Grass wouldn’t have grown over it

“I don’t know” Lori atchingwalk at the cemetery I don’t think she’s ready for all of that”

Dary appeared to accept the excuse, which was partly true, at least

She stayed for a couple of hours longer and then left, pro to text me later

“Thank you,” I said to Lori after she’d shut the door “For the ce”

She nodded absently, her face pinched “You aren’t ready to do that, and I’ just physically”

I picked up a throw pillow and clutched it to ht

“You won’t even talk about Megan or the guys” She walked close to the couch “You won’t talk about the accident or anything I knew you wouldn’t want to go to their graves”

Graves I hated that word It was cold and barren

“You know you’ve got to eventually” Lori sat next to me and kicked her bare feet up on the coffee table “You need to It’s closure Or so”

I nodded “I know I just” A knot twisted deep in ?”

“Sure”

“Do you think what happened is really an accident?”

Her brows knitted “What do you mean?”

“It’s hard to explain butis it really an accident? I ” I held the pillow close “If he’d survived, couldn’t he be charged with vehicular ?”

“I guess”

“Then how is it really an accident?” And shouldn’t I be charged with so because I hadn’t been drunk? I didn’t voice that “Tothat couldn’t be prevented This could’ve been”

Lori tipped her head back against the cushion “I get what you’re saying, but II don’t knohat to say He didn’t intend to lose control and wreck He didn’t intend to kill anyone and hurt you, but he did Actions have consequences, right?”