Things had changed in Hayden ever since that night at the rodeo—-the people of this town respected Abbie now. They welcomed her, and her mother was now an outcast, still living in a shitty trailer just outside of town. No one ever saw her anymore, not since Abbie moved out and into my house. My dad took her in, giving her my bedroom, and for the last two years of high school, the three of us lived in a comfortable routine. When I graduated, I moved to the bunkhouse on Hallow Ranch, and when Abbie graduated a year after that, she stayed for the summer, working at Hallow Ranch alongside me and
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