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“I’ serious Since when do you pull a stunt like this?”

Did I want to get into it? No But I knew Hailey wouldn’t leave it alone, so I decided to give her a little recap “Mo to ca her at my uncle’s for a feeeks My dad thinks that I ith them”

“So he has no idea at all that you’re here? You didn’t leave hi? Like he thinks you’re in another state with your mom?”

I shrugged “I don’t knohat he thinks I haven’t seen him yet”

“Wow If anyone else had the balls to do this, I’d say that I was impressed” She took a step toward me “But Everly This isn’t you It’s not evenon?” Hailey knew me better than anyone, and I knew that she was concerned I saw it in her eyes “Look, I’ll be the first to admit that Link’s taken up a lot of ht?”

“Hailey Stop It’s okay”

“But it’s not You’ve been weird for weeks, and I guess I was just hoping you’d co”

Man, I so didn’t want to do this

“Hailey I’ood”

She didn’t believe me

“Trevor isn’t, like,you don’t want to do, is he?”

“No! God no”

“Well? Are you going to tellon”

“Nothing Everything” I sighed “I don’t know I didn’t want to go with my mom, and I really didn’t want to stay home with Dad so…I just sort of ended up here”

“That’s it?” she asked I could tell by the tone of her voice she wasn’t going to let this go, but a soft knock sounded behind me, and we both turned as Trevor walked into the room