CHAPTER 24! he'd sit and sketch out drawings specifically for her

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I DON'T SMOKE ★﹚

RUE WAS STILL DOING DRUGS!

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RUE WAS STILL DOING DRUGS!

she laid on the bed, while elliot played his guitar.

"you know what nobody understands? is that, like, drugs are honestly the only way that i can be myself." rue began.

"i don't think that's true." elliot said.

"no, it is true. like, when i first met you, i would've never had the balls to just, like, come up to you and talk to you."

"why?"

"i don't know. i'm just, like, a deeply shy person. and like, with jules, right? when i first met her, i was just, immediately in love."

"in love?"

"yeah. when you say it out loud, it kinda sounds small."

"what's a bigger feeling than love?"

"loss."

"you think?"

"yeah, i think so. yeah. i don't know, maybe that's what it was. as soon as i saw her, i was just immediately afraid to lose her."

"who have you lost?"

"uh, my dad."

"meaning?"

"meaning he's dead."

"shit, i'm sorry."

"it's fine. you didn't, like, kill him."

"how was he killed?"

"oh, he wasn't."

"are you fucking with me right now,"

"no, it was cancer."

"shit."

"yeah."

"how old were you?"

"i was 14."

"so, recently?"

"not really."

"i feel like that's kinda recent."

"i don't know, i guess, it feels like fucking forever ago."

"is that why you started doing drugs?"

"that's what everybody asks in rehab."

rue and elliot had a deep, meaningful conversation.

maybe it wasn't such a good idea that they had become friends.







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