It was amazing she hadn’t figured it out yet, but I was careful to take off the rosary when I met her, and I always showered before I came. I thought it would be tough, not smoking to avoid giving myself away, but when I was around her, I just wanted to stay around her. My nic fit wasn’t worth leaving her until I was damn good and ready. I’d also never worn my mask, because then she would know I was a Horseman. But if I told her I was nineteen, she’d figure out which class I graduated in, and with my lurking and scaring her just like I did in the janitor’s closet and in the lunchroom, she’d
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