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Chapter thirty six

Author: Valerie Ray
last update publish date: 2026-05-03 19:04:19

Hazel

Getting back into a routine after three days in a hospital bed is not as easy as it should be. The alarm went off at seven and I hit it twice before I actually got up. My chest was fine. Just that low-grade reluctance that sits in you when you have been still for too long and the world kept moving without you. i seriously don't want to go to school.

I got dressed. Made tea. Ate standing at the counter because there was nobody home to tell me to sit down. I checked my bag more times than
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  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fifty three

    HazelSilas pulled up outside the main entrance at five to nine and kept the engine running."If anything feels off," he said, "call me."She had one foot out the door. "I know.""Anything at all.""I know, Silas." She stepped out and turned back before she closed the door. "Wait — are you picking me up?"He looked at her."Don't just drop me off and disappear. Come back at the end of the day." She held the door. "Please."Something shifted slightly in his expression. Not surprise exactly. Just a small adjustment. "I'll be here.""Thank you." She closed the door and went up the steps before she could think about the fact that she had just said please to Silas and then thank you and had also essentially asked him not to leave without checking in first, which was approximately the opposite of every boundary she had been maintaining for two weeks.She did not look back.The morning had started badly enough with the aunt and the locked door and Silas arriving and then leaving again witho

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fifty two

    HazelSilas didn't come back that night.She had stayed on the bed for an hour, then moved to the couch, then went back upstairs, and by ten she had done enough of that and had a shower and gone to sleep. She did not check whether he was home. She did not listen for the front door. She went to sleep and woke up at seven and lay there for a few minutes and then got up.The morning was ordinary. She made tea. She checked her phone — three notifications from a group chat she was barely active in and a meme Maya had sent at midnight. She put bread in the toaster and stood at the counter and scrolled without reading anything and generally existed without incident. She did not open the group chat to see whether anyone had posted the car park video yet. That could wait.At twenty past eight the knock came.She set her mug down.A second knock before she had crossed the hallway. She went to the door and looked through the peephole.Her stomach dropped.Her aunt was standing on the step.She

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fifty one

    The drive was quiet.Not uncomfortable quiet — or at least not the kind either of them acknowledged. Silas had both hands on the wheel for the first part and then dropped one to his lap and kept the other there, and the only movement was the occasional tap of his index finger against the steering wheel. Not impatient. Just the way some people hold rhythm without realizing they're doing it.Hazel looked out the window.She had her bag on her knees and her phone face up on top of it. She checked it twice. Neither time was there anything she needed to respond to. She was checking it the way people check phones when they need something to do with their hands and their eyes.The school situation was already in motion. She could feel it without looking. One or two videos, probably more. Someone would post tonight and by morning it would have circulated through most of the year group. She had thought about her chances of getting ahead of whatever narrative landed first and concluded there wa

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fifty

    — HazelShe had the misfortune of having the same class as Chloe.She realized this when they filed back from the changing rooms and ended up in the same corridor heading to the same room. Chloe was two people ahead and did not acknowledge her, which was fine. Tiffany's absence from the building — currently in the infirmary, still being attended to — meant the usual dynamic was missing one component, and without Tiffany to anchor it, Chloe seemed slightly less purposeful. Just a person in a hallway. Slightly diminished.Hazel thought about the dodgeball and almost felt something like pity.Almost. Then she remembered the trajectory of that throw — how it had come in hard and clearly aimed — and the almost went away.She found a seat near the window and settled in.The lecture was one she had been following all term and would normally have paid attention to without much effort. Today her brain was operating slightly behind where it should have been. She spent part of the first half wa

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter forty nine

    HazelThey had lunch first, then PE.The cafeteria part was straightforward — Maya talked the whole time about something one of the guys who'd gotten her number had texted her the night before, and Hazel ate and made the right responses and kept her eyes on her tray. By the time they cleared their plates and headed toward the changing rooms, Hazel had already moved on to thinking about whether she could get through the rest of the week without any further unexpected hallway moments involving Silas.She was still thinking about it when she pushed open the locker room door.They were already in there.Tiffany, her cousin Chloe, and Claire. Three of them near the far end of the room, bags open on the bench, mid-conversation — which stopped the moment the door shut behind Hazel and Maya.Hazel went to her locker.She didn't look at any of them directly. She didn't need to. She could feel Chloe's eyes from across the room — that kind of stare designed to communicate something unpleasant w

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter forty eight

    SilasMy kitten had been avoiding me for three days.I let her. That was the interesting part — I let her do it and I watched and it was genuinely entertaining. She had an entire system. She checked the car park before coming in. She moved through the house at hours she had calculated I wouldn't be around. She took food upstairs rather than eating in the kitchen. She left in the morning before I was visible.It was thorough. I respected the effort.What she hadn't accounted for was that I had been watching her do all of it.The thing about Hazel is she has no idea what she does. None. She goes through her days with her bag and her headphones and that expression she wears when she's thinking about something she's not ready to say yet, and she has absolutely no concept of the effect any of it has. If she did — if she had even a rough idea of what had been going through my head since I carried her out of that party — she wouldn't just be avoiding me. She'd have moved out entirely.I sh

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    Hazel pov Chloe stood by our table. She looked down at us like we were dirt on her shoes. She had that fake, plastic smile plastered on her face. She was as insufferable as ever. I hated looking at her. I hated knowing we shared the same blood. "Come on, Hazel," Chloe said. Her voice was too lou

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    Hazel pov I sat at the small kitchen table in Maya’s house. The kitchen smelled like butter and sugar. Maya’s mother just took a tray of cookies out of the oven. They were chocolate chip. The chocolate was still melting. I took a bite. It was warm and sweet. I closed my eyes and smiled.For the fi

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  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fourteen

    The room was dark. My laptop screen was black. The only light came from the street. It made long, thin shadows on my floor.The house was very quiet. Maya was next to me in bed. She was a heater. She was breathing slow. We had eaten too many chips. We had talked too much. We were both dead to the w

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