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Sighing, I picked up the photo of Mo on the desk It was taken before he’d started showing symptoms At two, I was supposed to have been in the photo, but wouldn’t sit still Every i away, Mo after me This was one of my favorite pictures because it reminded me how important family was

Chapter Eleven

Wrenn

I was beginning to notice things that I kneere not just in my head: the way he kept eye contact with er than he did everyone else, the fact that he would find any excuse to come over to the house We could sit and talk for hours about nothing, and everything He was still professional, he was still my teacher, but out of class he had become my friend

Tonight, I was going to test this He either felt so the rest of the semester embarrassed as hell every time I had to walk into that classroom

“Anyone ho my books on the hall table

Silence greeted , I made my way into Layna’s office I walked over to her desk and sat doith no idea where to start The slightest noise ht I’d lar

I flicked though so The desk drawers; nothing I was losing hope of ever finding what I needed when I saw it

Her phone She was forever leaving it at ho what I was looking for

Picking it up, I clicked my way to Contacts and scrolled down to Reid

And there it was My hands shook as I copied the number intoat ? I clicked out of Contacts and navigatedthe phone down exactly where I’d found it, right down to the angle it had been at

Even once upstairs in the safety of ed onto do this? What if he brushed e my mind

“Hello?”

Oh h my body I nearly ended the call My voice wouldn’t work, and I was beginning to sweat

“Hello?” he repeated