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At the s died inside ofto be accepted sure is strong They’d both shown , that they wanted to be rid of me, which makes no sense because they’d alienated everyone who had an interest in me

Becky looked aroundelse to destroy before turning to her spawn “Co your grade up to a B in English” Funny, I’ve been getting A+ in alave h I hadn’t said the word out loud One of the things I resomeone say it is that ladies do not say those types of words

I looked around at the destruction on my room floor and was surprised to see that I wasn’t as hurt as I usually would’ve been All I felt was a cold nu I’d truly been hoping for, for what seems like forever

I picked up the pieces of paper with a strong sense of es of my mother I had more, of course, but the disrespect made me feel powerless

I draggedout the sounds of joy co what dad had gotten his favorite daughter I'm sure she'd be only too happy to rub it in

GABRIEL

“Maybe we should ask Lance; he would know”

“Ask Lance what?” I just came out ofPop’s daughters didn’t even flinch when they turned to ht up to some shit

“Nothing, just this criame that he told us about”

I gave them the squinty-eyed I don’t believe shit look, but they weren’t phased “Don’t you know about it? It’s this thing where you help solve real crimes”

“And you two are going to solve crimes”