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Complete Mess: 5 Seconds of Summer
"Dave, please-"
"No, Gwen. I said no. This is what I want."
"No, it's not. You have a chance. A real chance to get out of this."
"And by doing so, I put my eight year old daughter on the stand. I will not have that. She's been through so much already."
"And she'll grow up without a father if you do this!"
"And she'll grow up to hate me instead. You know Grayson. He has buried every single person who was willing to help me. You know he'll do the same to Amanda. And I will not allow that. I'll die first."
"Dave-"
"Please, Gwen. This is what I want. This is right. You know it is. So go to Ryan and do it. Drop the appeal."
I lay on the blanket and stare at the sky with ringing ears. I tune out the rest of the conversation and my heart pounds against my chest.
"You wanna raise my son?"
"Anything to get him away from you. You can come after me all you want, just leave Mac and the rest of my family alone. Forever."
I blink a few times and sit up, snapping myself out of it. I pause the Walkman and take off my headphones, letting them hang around my neck. I cross my legs under me and I bite the inside of my cheek. I then look up to see Mac looking through his telescope.
"You see anything?" I say.
"Yeah." Mac lifts up the covers of the special glasses he's wearing. "You know, it has always amazed me that the Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, and yet for seven minutes, it completely blocks out the sun's light, plunging everything in its path into darkness."
"Great inspiration for the world's underdogs. Or the world's psychopaths. Take your pick." I nod.
"Okay." He scoffs before sitting next to me. "What are you listening to?"
"Something Charlotte sent me a few days ago. She knows I like tapes." I place my Walkman and my headphones in my bag.
"You know, Codex is defeated, Leland is in hiding. We're back to work at the Phoenix."
"Yeah, seems like it." I nod, keep my gaze forward.
"I'm really sorry, about Takeda. He was a good man."
"Yeah, he was." I lean my arms over my knees and look around.
"What happened?"
"Old age. Died in his sleep, so, he didn't suffer."
