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After dinner, we play another ten fraain, a fact I’m sure to rub in as Mason drivesback up the path to my parents’ house

Alone

Mason doesn’t even try to walk me to the door

Which is a little…disappointing

“Not disappointing,” Ihis car pull away froood It’s exactly what I wanted”

It is Which leaves no explanation for why I feel like a balloon with all the air leaking out, or why I hurry up to ht to Aria

No explanation for why I curl into bed feeling sad and alone in a way I haven’t in a long time

There is just no explanation

None at all

Chapter 6

Mason

They say you can’t go hoain

In ain, but why? Why put yourself through that when you could light yourself on fire and walk across a bed of nails instead?

“Because it’s the right thing to do,” I mumble beneath my breath as I slide out of y island in a sea of overgrown grass and junk carsup

I should at least see if he’s alive or dead, and offer him help if he needs it I’ each other is what family is for Just because my family has been dysfunctional up to this point, it doesn’t mean that I have to continue the trend

“Well if it ain’t the big h the shade on the porch, drawing ht There, Uncle Parker squints up atfront stoop “Alive and in the flesh”