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Finally, his er had the funds or the patience to deal with his destructive behavior His dad had been offered a university job in the United States Washington, to be exact The saood ain

Histo his dad about shipping hih the boy wasn’t quite sure He’d never be sure His dad had a girlfriend, too, a nice woot to see the benefits of the new side of hiot the chance to hear

When he arrived at the university, he ainst the oldhis boxes into the decent-sized rooe of relief The room ice the size that his room in Hampstead had been It had no holes in the walls; there were no bugs crawling up the sinks in the bathroom He finally had a place to put all of his books

At first, he kept to hiether slowly, and with it he fell into the same dark pattern

He met the virtual twin of Mark, all the way over in A him start to think this was the way the world was just supposed to be He began to accept that he would always be alone He was good at hurting people, at causing irl, like the one before, and he felt that sa to destroy his life with its wild energy He began drinking the way his dad did, being the worst type of hypocrite

He didn’t care, though; he was nunore the fact that he didn’t have anything real in his life

Nothing really mattered

Not even the girls who tried to get through to him

Natalie

When he irl with dark hair, he knew she was there to test hientlest spirit he had met so farand she was infatuated with him

He took the naive girl from her tidy, unblemished world and swept her into a dustpan, then scattered her across a dark and unforgiving world that was completely unfamiliar to her His callousness made her an outcast, exiled froossip was harsh, the whispers traveling fro woman to another Her family wasn’t any better She had no one, and shehi