Epilogue Part 1

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LOS ANGELES, CA

SIX MONTHS LATER

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JUDAH’s POV :

Christmas used to mean nothing to me.

My mom and I were too busy being in survival mode to care about stupid holidays like that. Plus, we didn't have any money for gifts or holidays. Usually, she’d work through Christmas, and I’d get high and pass it by.

But not this year.

This year would be our first Christmas together, Blondie and I. We went back to Hawaii for Thanksgiving, as we promised our friends, but we were staying in California for Christmas. Plane tickets were expensive and Blondie wanted to stay here and rehearse anyway. That’s right, my very own Blondie was chosen as the lead role for UCLA’s upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet.

That's fucking sick. I'm hella proud of her.

The play would open in January, and Blondie would rather spend Christmas break practicing than anything else. Even though the school and the production were on break