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32: The truth about sand castles
"The truth comes out... I think when you fight you find out who you are"
~Chris WeidmanQuynn's POV
I decide to take a rest in the garden after about an hour of sketching and drawing and I adjust my chair and my eyes briefly close. I don't know for how long I was out, but as I open my eyes, I see Joey with a blue plastic helmet, standing beside my chair with a mischievous look on his face. I properly glance at him and find him holding a bowl of dirt and a shovel in his hand.
"What do you want?" I groan loudly. Since Joey returned, he has dragged me into one problem or the other and I don't know if it's because he's having fun or if he's just trying to torment me and I didn't want to do that anymore.
It is bad that I can't call Anna and tell her the major change that has taken place, being Joey returning from school because that goes a
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