Her words are supposed to be reassuring, but she sounds gloomy; she wishes what she just said wasn’t true. The Riot House boys don’t like crashing townie parties. Dashiell won’t be there, which means that Pax won’t, either. I’m stubborn for refusing to acknowledge my crush on Lovett, but Presley isn’t like me. She isn’t bound by the same rules. She’s as true as an arrow. When she announced that she was in love with Pax eighteen months ago, standing outside Gilbertson’s Coin Operated Laundry and Video Game Arcade, I believed her without question. Once Presley settles on something, or someone,
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