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“Reht?” I asked “Where are you?”

“I’m in the line for the ferry I’m okay,” Remy said His voice actually sounded… normal Which I kneasn’t possible

“Reet you You can come stay with us”

“Thanks, but I’o stay with a friend for a couple days I already called Dom to make sure it was okay”

Dom as in Dom Barretti, his boss

As far as I knew, Rele day of work in the two years he’d worked for Dom

“Will you tell the person whose car I hit that I’m sorry and I’ll pay for it?”

“I’ll take care of it,” I began “But Remy…”

“Aleks,” Remy said softly

“Yeah?”

“I’m okay, I swear it”

“Please come stay with us,” I repeated

Re to stay with et there and let you talk to hiht? I need… I need to be with him because he’ll knohat to say to me”

I understood what it was that he wasn’t telling me

He was fighting the urge to get high

“Swear to ,” I said “Swear it to ht”

Remy chuckled “I swear it, Aleks”

I felt a little bit of relief because his laugh sounded pretty good And he’d never lied to me before

Because he was my friend

“I’ll call you tonight, okay?”

“Okay,” I said with a nod “Text me, too Every hour”

“Aleks…”

“Every hour, Remy”

“Okay, fine, every hour I have to go, the cars are being loaded onto the ferry”

I saidup