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Once more, I ser place, I’et myself this same couch”

“Are you still using your apartment as adown at his plate “This is a”

“When it comes to food, no one knows better than Stevie Wasn’t the food at her wedding great?”

“I thought you disliked the fish?”

“I did, but I’ainst all fish not fro a bite

“Do you miss it? Cypress?”

I nodded “Some days more than others I love New York After you’ve lived here for a while, it’s kind of hard not to But I miss the open spaces, and the nature Once, when I was nine, we ran into a herd of baby deer, and I re to take one home with me so badly that I cried whenwas, he would be sad if soht I was pretty and decided to take me home, which was really horrid now that I think about it, but I understood what he meant”

“The photos you showed at Stevie’s wedding were cute It’s coiven your parents one hell of a tihed

“Not really” I sighed “My parents never really tried to tell me no, so I always tried to do my best around them”

“Why?”

Puttingto tell you so sad, but please don’t worry about if I’ like that For the most part, I’m really okay” I could tell he felt a little lost “I’ht with your brother So when I elve, e and toldat this person in thehim on the inside He planned to become a female, and my father lost it” I whispered that last part

“He was so angry he almost had a heart attack He told ain…not until he ‘got his head on straight’ My brother, he tried He tried as hard as he could to change himself to be more like what my father wanted, but that just made him hate himself more No one talked about it Then, a year later, he coot letters in theme how much he loved me, and wanted me to be the best Guinevere in the history of Guineveres, and also to take care of his puppy, Taigi To h he knew he disgusted theive hiet out of bed” I hated talking about my past I had told no one this, not even Sebastian

“When I go horets what he said to hters instead of one daughter and a dead son The only reason I’ so depressing—is because hearing Logan felt like I was hearing , just this time it’s about music Is it really the saet one life, and it’s hard enough without the people we love trying to stop us froo out there and completely fail as a musician? Sure It happens to h people ill tell hiood, or that he will never make it Believe me, I know, because I’ve met all of them”

Many of the for me to fail

“He just needs his big brother to love hiet that you love him and want him to be happy, but whether he fails or not, he just needs you to be in his corner” When I finished, I handed him the present I had wrapped