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The sun is blazing through theand heating the side ofand keep flicking one by since I last called her I just want to go home

I loosen the tie and press the gas slightly when traffic starts

Only to fucking stop

“Jesus Come on, there has to be another way” There’s an exit about a mile ahead I can take the back way It adds on ten minutes, but if I stay here, it could add on an hour, rass and hope a cop doesn’t see me

Worth it

Right as I’ it up, I s ain “Hey, baby, what are you wearing?” I say in a lol, answering the phone like I do every time she calls

“Ow-en?”

I sit up straighter when I hear the struggle in her voice “Annabeth? What’s wrong?” She gurgles and coughs, then starts to cry “Annabeth?” I slarass as her choked voice has e of panic “I need you to talk to ? Please, talk to me”

“He caasps

I honk the horn when so Fear unlike anything I’ve ever felt before raet to Annabeth as fast as I can My truck fishtails, turning up chunks of grass through the air

“Who? What are you talking about, sweetheart? What happened? Just talk to le in her voice, the effort in her throat as she tries to speak I lay a hand against ,to her before…