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The house was relatively quiet, as is to be expected at ten o’clock on a school night I don’t technically need to sneak out, but I didn’t want to answer any unnecessary questions that I don’t have the answers to Personally, I want to see what’s in that book

I’d spent yet another evening thinking about her She’s the first thing in life that had takenI didn’t o, I didn’t think there was anything that could swayabout her situation keeps pulling at et to the bottom of this shit

I’ve already co to need the twins and Ma to helpI can do on ene, and ain, if I don’t do this, I’ll never knohat the hell is going on with her and that stepsister of hers

I think I have a pretty good idea already, but I need to know the facts beforeany preemptive strikes My family can’t knohat I’m up to because, well, that would only open a can of worms that’s better-left shut As far as they know, I’m the quiet, scholarly type who has no interest in shit other than getting into one of the top schools in the country I’ve done that for Pop because he wants it so bad

Gramps, on the other hand, would be overjoyed that one of us was following in his footsteps He sees nothing wrong with the way things were done in the old days, but that shit has been ingrained in hie; it’s all he knows The man who’d once deniedout hope that I’d be the one to carry on the family tradition Now here she co states of ancient Qing

I deactivated and reset the alar e I didn’t even try to hide froet paid to do keeps theilant Besides, I already kno to slip by the down on theain The last tie, and I had a new one a day later I have no clue what happened to the guys

This tirow suspicious and sound the alar to followas I coood I drove down the driveway at a snail’s pace, giving theht drive, so I’ve been known to do

I started grinning when they started swearing when I flen the street in Pop’s Lambo I could, of course, hear them since Pop’s vehicles are wired for sound, not sure they know that, though Whatever! I forgot thehts off once I’d lost theh the familiar streets in a roundabout way to reach my destination

Lancelot was already there, sitting on the hood of his car, chilling Of course, he’d beat et here He jumped dohen I parked next to hi here? You forgot so?”

“Nope, so I want to have a look at”

“And it couldn’t wait until ave him my ‘don’t ask stupid questions’ look

He didn’t question et in because he’d seen it before, but he did question ere in this particular wing of the school He se got to the lockers, and he saw her name before I popped the lock My heart started to race when I saw the book just lying there There were soh her belongings like some creeper fuck; I just wanted to see if she really had been drawing me

I flipped to the last page and lost my breath entirely She hadn’t had much time before she’d been interrupted, but fro that it was uess “Daht hit er Who the hell else has she drawn in this book? The answer hadweak