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He’s clearly pissed that I’ve proven hi anyone ould listen that I’d never hI finally have that MD after h around the edges most of my classmates wouldn’t talk to me until the end of our first semester

But they eventually realized that I wasn’t trouble

I just ca You can’t help where you come from, but you can help where you end up

My uncle is sitting here alone and miserable in a teruts to drea better I’ll never sleep on that ain because I did

“You still seeing that March girl, then?” he asks

“Yep”

Parker’s jaorks back and forth, the way it does when he is chewing on so to see if it tastes like the truth If it doesn’t, it’s grounds to unleash the poison always on the tip of his tongue “Really? That’s hard to believe”

“Believe what you want,” I say with a shrug “It’s the truth”

“The truth,” he echoes, his flat blue eyes going narrow and irl cried for an entire year after you left Sobbing until she made herself sick” His lips hook up on one side “You sure pulled the wool over her eyes, didn’t you, boy? She thought you were a real decent little bastard” He chuckles “Turns out you’re just a bastard”

I clenchfor “I’ Lark with you I just came to see if you wanted lunch and to ood shape before I took it out on the lake”

His nose wrinkles, but after a“See for yourself It’s in the barn Was fine the last time I took it out”

“Thanks” I step back, but before I can turn around he launches his next attack

“Should have just taken it We both know you didn’t want to buy me no lunch”