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I already knew that, but it bothered uy who had no idea what the world looked like outside of the Hill, say it about him
“Race is Race I have no illusions about what kind of guy he is”
Drew sighed and let his hand fall off ster He has people beaten up that owe him money and takes their cars for collateral if they can’t pay People say he was the one that set Novak up and that he did it so he could take over the black market Novak ran”
I knew all of that and nore it when she had been right in the thick of it
“People have to do what they need to in order to survive, Drew Not everyone has a full-ride scholarship or coe education”
He reared back and narrowed his eyes at me
“Well, since you’re so tight with him, then you know that’s not the case with Race His parents have more money than God, and he had a trust fund that could buy and sell this university a hundred times over He picked that life He chose to be a criminal He had all the same opportunities as the rest of us, he just squandered them and sank into the black hole of the Point”
I doubted it was as easy as that, but this wasn’t a conversation I felt like I needed to be having any to force Race out ofabout him with anyone else in my life
“I think the way things look on the surface is alwaysto do, and like I said, none of iton o to my next class”
He gave me a concerned look that I turned s on the outside hiding the real, ugly truth of the way things were once you got past the front door I didn’t know Race well enough to try and judge the choices he h and intuitive enough to know that there was more to the story, deeper circuossiped and speculated about
My next two classes, both of which I had high A’s in, flew by and I was rushing across the sprawling campus to er worked at the restaurant where we hadout I spotted her bright, orange-ish-red hair with no problem and threw myself into the chair across fro for enerous and sweet
She s up, and her eyes, the exact sa in love with an unholy terror looked good on her, there was no denying it
“Hey”