114 Overdose

Scarlett’s POV

Well, I don’t have one.

I talked big, but I didn’t really have a “revenge plan” in my mind. Doing people harm is a huge project, and just thinking about it exhausts me.

“Whatever you want to do, we are here for you,” Aurora says this, only to dart a weird glance at Adrian —

She could only speak for herself and Lilith on that one, but it’s also awkward to specially exclude him from it.

“Yeah!” Adrian pretends he doesn’t understand Aurora’s awkward glance, nodding firmly with a genuine tone, “We are ALL here for you.”

Aurora darts her eyes away, pressing her lips downward as they try to curve up as if having their own minds.

“You are staying with me though, right?” Aurora averts the topic she started, again, “I’m trying to get Lilith to come and live here, too. Her law firm is twenty minutes walk from her, and we can have pillow fights—”

Just within a minute, Aurora glances at Adrian in pure awkwardness twice with a look like she wants to bite off her own tongue. She is really not used to having a conversation with an outsider in our little circle.

Adrian looks away, clearing his throat

trying her best to give a pep talk, immersing in

if this is a good time to mention this, or whether I

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111 Ovenlose

of the three of us, physically, but she can be the

felt a bit inferior. She is a straight shooter in

kept it to yourself?” I remind Lilith, nudging her softly, “It’s us, you can say

look is rarely serious, just like the time when she finally decided to let me in on her secret. But my reminder

doesn’t add up, the way Ava described…about your

do you mean?”

in,

have to talk

hesitation, she takes

‘her face flushed red‘. That’s not what an overdoser looks like. My…my mom overdosed, and I saw her dead body with my own eyes. If Ava said this, then she lied. Your mom might be a drug user,

tragic death, and certainly not that she had to watch it herself. I hug my kind, lovely Lilith, murmuring: “Thanks, that does make me feel better. I’m really sorry

make me feel better. To know one good thing about my mom, not even

look into my

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