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epilogue.

"Did you say something about Kale?"

"Why would I?"

"You're shady."
I say.
"Everyone is looking at me like an idiot."

"You're lactating."
He shrugs.
"You aren't special."

I sit down on the bottom bunk of the bed and rub my hands over my eyes, looking at Liam between my fingers.

"What was going on last night? I couldn't get any sleep."

"Shannon and Teddy were fucking on the tables."

"For three hours?"
I squint my eyes.

"Shannon fucks like an animal and cums like a fountain, you shouldn't be surprised."
He replies.

"I'm so tired and uncomfortable."

"Just go to bed, it's not a big deal, I doubt we're going to get any yard time today, it's fucking raining again."

"You're kidding."
I groan.

"I wish I was. Aspen wanted to play wrestle in the grass and we can't now."

"I feel like that's not actual wrestling."

"Play fighting, rolling around, holding each other's arms-- Danny and Dekedrian were going to coach us, I'm sure we'd just end up making out on the ground anyways... probably other things, too."

"You would have sex with Aspen?"

"Who wouldn't?"

"Me."
I roll my eyes.

"You aren't intelligent."

"I am so!"

"You were involved with several different gangs."

"What's your point?"

"You aren't smart because you're in prison."

"So are you."

"At least I owned up to my crimes."

"No, you can't do that."

"Do what?"

"Hold that over my head!"
I huff.
"You've been doing that since practically day one!"

"Because I know stuff."
He smiles.
"I know information about you that you could hold over a dead body."

I shake my head, rolling my eyes.

"Five people are tied to a train track with a train coming, but there's a lever you can pull to make it change ways, but there's one person tied to that track, what are you gonna do? Save one life or save five?"

"I'm gonna save five."

"I'm saving one."
He replies.
"Mine."