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• I tried to swallow but it got stuck in my throat. I didn’t know what else to say. The conversation was doing the opposite of putting me at ease.
• “Will you ever be able to tell me?” I pleaded. “Will I ever get to know what you’re doing when we’re not together? Why you’ve been missing school? Who you’ve been texting for the last several months?”
• Ace winced as he looked up at my ceiling. “I’m going to get in so much trouble for telling you this.”