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HAZEL

It's been three days since I let my stepbrother fuck me raw on his couch. Since Cole collapsed in his brother’s apartment. Since everything went downhill.

I haven't cried once.

I threw myself into studying until my eyes stung and ran laps around campus at dawn just so my body would be too tired to think. Anything to stay numb.

Cade hasn't shown up to a single class.

Not once.

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