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y’all are bad.” That was a
pay her?” Will guessed. “Twenty
Cedric, “What do you think happened?”
in danger.
get into his grandmother’s apartment, but
about the lock. This morning, Jasmine and
He turned on the computer just to buy some time while his mind played out the usual taunts, telling him he was probably retarded, that maybe he had something wrong with his brain that no one had ever bothered to figure out. God knew he had been beaten in the head enough times to knock something loose. At the end of the day, none of the possible reasons for his problem mattered and none of it changed the fact that there were kids in third grade who could read better than Will.
“Because when you know somebody that long, when you grow up with somebody like that, you’re just too …” She searched for a word. “Raw,” she decided. “Too vulnerable. I know everything about him and he knows everything about me. You can’t really love somebody like that. I mean, sure, you can love them—he’s like a part of me, part of my heart.
