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Hayden and I stood by the river, listening to the water while the wind whipped through the trees.

After a while, my legs started giving out. I was exhausted.

"What's wrong?" Hayden asked.

"I need to sit. My legs are sore," I admitted.

Without missing a beat, he scooped me up by the waist, carrying me over to a big rock like I weighed nothing. Even though he did stuff like this all the time, I still acted shy. "I can walk, you know."

He raised an eyebrow. "Didn't you just say your legs were sore? How're you gonna walk?"

I stuck out my tongue and let him win that one.

He set me down, then sat beside me, but b I could scoot closer, his arm hooked around my waist and pulled me right into his lap. What was he up to now?

I could ask, he whispered in

there a more thoughtful

his, something felt off. There was this faint trace of

the river by himself to

pulled back, Hayden sighed, "I won't smoke anymore.

my head. "You don't have to quit

looked at me, his

his brow. "Just don't overdo it. It's bad for you." As I said it, a weird sadness crept in. My chest tightened, and I felt that familiar sting of tears. "Hayden, you're the closest person

of forever used to feel so

his throat bobbing as he held

mind drifted to the accident report I still hadn't finished. I'd stopped reading halfway through, unable to bring myself to see

my parents' accident?"

a little closer before answering in a low voice, "It's over

he was worried I'd break down again. "I'm not scared

said that, the thought of those pictures made me

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you what?" he asked

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