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47 - Protect him
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Drowning in You 64 - Don't Get Used to It
Liam came over and sat down next to them. He said something to the kid, and the kid laughed harder, and then Liam said something to Leo, and Leo smiled. Not a ghost smile. A real one. Small, but real. He ducked his head when he did it. I cracked my knuckles so hard that Reyes, three feet away, winced. "Reid, man," Reyes said. "You're going to break your hand doing that." "I know what I'm doing." "I'm just saying." "Don't." He raised his hands and went back to the tarp. I watched Liam lean over and point at something on Leo's notepad. Leo nodded. Liam said something else. Leo laughed. It wasn't a huge laugh. It wasn't the kind of laugh he used to do with me when we were eight, that whole-body laugh where he fell over sideways. It was a small laugh. A polite one. It still cut me open. I thought about going over there. I thought about walking across the concrete and standing behind Leo and putting my hand on the back of his neck, just resting it there, so Liam would know. I didn
Drowning in You 63 - Noted
I ended up at the north edge, near where the newcomers had set up. Sterling was awake now. He was sitting in his camp chair with a tin cup, watching me the way a man watches a dog he isn't sure of. I didn't look at him. I kept walking. I stopped at the ledge and gripped the brick with both hands.I thought about Danny Alvarez drifting past us in the dark. I thought about Sean's grin. I thought about my father, who was probably alive somewhere, in a dry building with dry food, watching the news. I thought about Leo at nine, kneeling by the pool at my parents' house, pressing his small hand to my chin where I had split it open on the board, saying {you're okay, you're okay, you're okay} in that quiet steady voice that had kept me from crying in front of the lifeguard.I had loved him then. I hadn't known the word yet. I had just known that nobody else in my life said {you're okay} like they meant it, and he had meant it, and he had been nine, and I had known even then that I was never
Drowning in You 62 - Clingy
"He was wearing a backpack," Leo said into his knees. "I know him. I had him in a seminar last fall. He always sat in the back. His name was Danny." "Leo." "Danny Alvarez. He was going to graduate in the spring." "Hayes." "Don't tell me not to think about it" "I wasn't going to." He lifted his head. His eyes were red. The smudge on his left lens was still there. He noticed it now. He took the glasses off and wiped the lens with the inside of his suit, which did absolutely nothing, which was the whole point of a wet suit. He put the glasses back on with the same smudge, slightly bigger now. "Thank you," he said. "For what." "For pulling me away." "Don't thank me for that." "Why not." "Because any decent person would have done it, Leo. That's a baseline. You don't thank people for the baseline." He looked at me for a long second. Then he reached up and pushed his glasses up his nose with one finger, and he almost smiled. It was the ghost of a smile. It was gone before it fi
Drowning in You 61 - Black Tide
The old ache started up in my ribs. I used to watch him do things like this when we were nine. The careful placement. The small rituals. He had always arranged his things so he could find them in the dark. He used to tell me it was because he had bad eyes. I had figured out later that it was because his mother worked nights and he had to get himself ready for school without turning the lights on.I had never told him I knew that. There were a lot of things I had never told him.The water in the stairwell was colder than yesterday. That shouldn't have been possible, but it was . I felt it bite through the suit before we even got below the first landing. Reyes and Park went in first, their lights carving two narrow cones through the silt. Leo and I followed with the retrieval bags clipped to our belts.I kept him in my peripheral vision. He was swimming controlled, steady, that long smooth distance stroke that always made him look like he was moving slower than he was. He kept his bre
Drowning in You 60 - Actual Fruit
I didn't sleep. I lay on my back on the gym mat and listened to the sound of forty people breathing in the dark. Leo was three feet away, curled on his side, his back to me. His shoulders rose and fell in a rhythm that was too even to be sleep. He was faking it. He knew that I knew he was faking it. We both lay there pretending for about four hours. Around what might have been three in the morning, I got up. I stepped over two freshmen and a girl I didn't know and made my way to the north edge of the roof, where Miller had stacked the newcomers' bags. Sterling was asleep in a camp chair with his tailored jacket folded over his lap, which was the most offensive thing I had seen on this roof so far. The woman who had come in with him, the one with the sharp eyes, was awake. She watched me walk past. She didn't say anything. I crouched by one of the newcomer bags, the smaller one, and opened the zipper slowly. There was fruit inside. Actual fruit. Three oranges, two apples, a small
Drowning in You 59 - Color
CALLUM'S POV________The dragging sound came again. Slow, heavy, something sliding against the inside of the building two floors below us. Then a pause. Then one more pull. Then nothing.I didn't let go of Leo's hand. I kept my grip on his fingers and my eyes on the black water lapping against the brickwork. Sushi was still rigid against his throat, ears flat, her tail puffed to twice its normal size. I had never seen the cat do that. The cat loved everything. The cat loved me, which was proof enough of her poor judgment, but she had always loved me. She did not love whatever was down there."Callum," Leo whispered. His voice had gone very small."I know.""Is it a person ?""It's not a person.""How do you know.""A person would be yelling."He went quiet. I could feel his pulse through the back of his hand. He was shaking a little, in that controlled way he had, where he tried to keep it in his fingers so no one else could see. I wanted to pull him into my chest and hold him there
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