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Back hoet ready for ing up in my closet, I wondered if Jules would like it

I opened the front door and , I pulled it out and e flashed on my screen

ALEXIS: I ht be in a little bit of trouble…

Shit Maybe I could make this quick I headed back inside

“Forgot your wallet?” Keyton looked up from the books spread out all over the kitchen table

“No, my backpack”

“I thought you alking to get ice cream”

I rushed upstairs to grabI needed was to go over yet again, why I couldn’t just abandon Alexis

ME: Where are you?

This couldn’t keep happening, but I didn’t kno to fix it How to get Alexis to see she didn’t need to keep going out with these loser guys She orth so much more than that But she couldn’t see it, no matter how much love and attention her , it made her pull back even more

And I felt that, deep in ood was real Hell, look at Jules I could practically feel the countdown tio out of net for shady shit she had no business going near

My phone vibrated in my cupholder A nae rolled in My heart pounded I torescreen and back onto the road Just my luck, I’d crash when I finally had an answer about hway,up and down I needed to find Alexis, but if he had information for me, I needed that now

MASON: I have a new lead I’ve got a last known address in Pittsburgh fourteen years ago in March

That was less than a year after she left ency placements where I’d barely had time to learn the names of the other kids in the houses and the amount of stuff I owned dwindled as each place stolen, lost, or left behind I rubbed e away the thudding pain like atoo much

MASON: I ht need more money