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Taking her off-guard, Caripped the book with one hand and extracted it fro at the air, trying to get it back, Cae as she held it out of Abby’s reach

“Tell me what this is?” Cammie demanded

“I can’t” Abby glared

“I’ll read it for myself and find out” Cae “What the—?”

Abby lunged toward the journal, ripping it frorand deal”

Careen eyes wary, which made Abby wonder what she read “Well, why in the world are you leaving in the middle of class to read it? I know she just died and you tere super close Closer than us,” she said, gesturing between the really weird” She paused and narrowed her eyes “It’s like there’son”

Had she always been this perceptive?

When Abby said nothing, Cammie stepped forward and placed an arm around her “I knoe’ve never been besties like Sara and Trish,” she said, referring to the other girls they hung out with at school “Like, we’ve never been the kind of friends that share secrets and do each other’s ossip about boys, but” Caured maybe we could be I don’t know Closer now I know you need a friend, and I’ on, you can tell me, and I can help, or at least try to But you can’t keep pushing me away”

Abby said nothing for a moment Was she really that crappy of a friend?

Of course, she was She had reserved reat and all butwith an eighteen-year-old girl saving sohty-year-old woht, and Abby had never aping hole in her heart

Abby tried for a smile, but it didn’t reach her eyes “Yeah I’d like that,” she said, hoping she sounded genuine She ht Abby needed to let her in She needed a close friend

“And I have big news,” Cae Mason! So, we’ll be going to the sae in the fall”

“That’s aweso

College

For the first tie It had consunosis Like any other soon-to-be-graduate, she craved independence and couldn’t wait to start a new chapter in her life But with GG gone, everything seeotten