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Becoo over to the microphone and pick up the notebook on the stool I flip open the first page—this must be Kai’s or the band’s lyric book I flip the book open, finding an unfinished thought or song

The weight of your love is bearing down on me

I can’t breathe

Suffocate me

Your smile is my number one addiction

Making you laugh is my obsession

I pray that it will end quickly

Suffocate me

Fast as you can wrap your hands around ht

Suffocate me

I’ll be your pain and you’ll be ret

I hurriedly close the notebook and shuffle back over to the couch as I hear Kai and Jake’s voices getting closer Did Kai write that? I find the more time I spend with Kai Cooper, the more questions I seem to have

“You ready to go?” Kai looks at me from the doorway I nod and smile

When I reach hilossed over If I didn’t know any better, I would think he is high I er in his chest “Kai Cooper, you aren’t drivingfrom the stairs to his apartment

“Not funny, asshole” I spin around and point at hi shit-eating grin on his face