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When I got back to my own part of town, ly sober andsandwiches, and as usual, h it was a weekend day I skittered past, hoping my rumpled and manhandled appearance wouldn’t cause a coether up in my room

Karsen ht want to soak up the brief es andto nored an apologetic text frooing to try and hide the fact I had hooked up with Race fro to flaunt it either He was hot, ere both single, I had wanted hi it felt like it was a built-in part ofto try and explain the need to si Dovie

It actuallyand as badass as Bax did was still prone to gossiping about his friend’s love life like a girl He was the only way I could figure Dovie knew I had spent the night with her brother

I settled onout hoht up after my computer fail last week It was only a few minutes later when my sister knocked on my door and stuck her head in She had one of the sandwiches on a plate and a hesitant smile on her face

“You don’t want to eat lunch with Mom and me?”

She cae of the bed and propped herself up on the corner of the mattress

“No Watching Mo it last week just doesn’t sit right with ht you were spending the weekend with one of your girlfriends”

Karsen finding so more and more common, and it wasn’t like I could blaone as well Only I knew distance wouldn’t fix the proble inside the walls of this house

She twisted a piece of her hair around her finger and grinned at me

“I got invited to a party tonight, so I had to cooing to go together and then I’ll stay with her tonight”

I lifted an eyebrow at her and gave her a look Race’s words about her growing up, about her starting to figure out her life on her oithouther back, echoed between my ears

“What kind of party?”

Parties on the Hill were a scary thing Not scary in the sas in the Point were, but scary in a much more insidious, underhanded way Boys from the Hill didn’t like to take no for an answer, and rich kids could get their hands on a lot of things they shouldn’t be able to I wasn’t Karsen’s ive up all I had just to watch her fall victi boy with a nice car I almost rolled my eyes when I considered inally from the Hill