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"Good” She lets out a breath “Carl is so worried"

My heart skips a beat "Why's he worried?"

She makes a face like there’s a lot , she just says, “Oh, I think he’s just…hoping Ezra will do well here”

"You think? You don’t knohy?” Now that she’s started, I want to hear everything there is I’ up And anyway, it’s clear that soone well back with his ht? And he was the star quarterback, with college scouts and all that?”

Mo at a spot where one of the succulents has overflowed its pot

“I guess so must have happened Who moves for their senior year?” I say “And why? Was it hisabout that…how she divorced or so”

"Well, that's not our business,” Moht sain, this ti so kind to him"

I trudge back up the stairs, trying not to feel guilty for beingnot that Fael I’ve done nothing but try with hiuy

Ezra

Never knohat to oodie two shoes, as uy was old as hell; I think the teroodie two shoes” is from the fifties or the sixties Maybe the bad kids only had one shoe? Who the fuck knows But yeah, Miller see

He’s got a temper hidden just under his clean-cut surface, but it seems to mostly only flare up when he’s near me I’ve only been here a feeeks, but already I feel like I understand who’s who and what’s what in Fairplay So I know he’s part of the “in” crowd For one, he’s lived here forever In a place like this, that matters Got that local street cred