The Throwaway (The Takedown Series Book 2) by Cole Denton

Author:Cole Denton [Denton, Cole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen years old/10th Grade/March

As soon as Hollis dropped me off, I ran straight to my room. I held my hand out in front of me so nothing would touch it. My backpack slid off my shoulders and crashed beside my desk. From the nightstand, I grabbed my composition book and slumped on the floor between my desk and bed. I stared at the back of my hand where Hollis touched it.

I was barely keeping it together. I was overwhelmed with feelings of fear, and I had nowhere to turn with it. No one to talk to. No one who would understand. No one who fucking cared. But Hollis did. I swear I felt something between us when he covered my hand with his. I didn’t know what exactly, but it was something.

My pulse raced as my heart thudded in my chest. I pressed the pen against the paper, but nothing happened. It was weird that I felt so much but couldn’t even write it out. Every time I felt something, I could always get it on paper.

Not this time.

Not today.

I closed the notebook and leaned against the wall to replay everything from this afternoon in the locker room as I stared at my hand.

I had been hurrying to get dressed and was careless when I should have taken my time.

But like an idiot, I barreled around the lockers while trying to zip my backpack and those damn pills fell out. And Hollis was so quick to pick them up. I clutched the front of my sweatshirt where Hollis had grabbed. He cared. I could feel it.

“Let me help you, Patrick. We’ll figure it out. Please let me try.”

“I need the pills, Hollis. You don’t understand.”

“Make me understand. Let me in and give me a chance to help.”

God, I wanted to go with him. I seriously considered it. Everything happened so fast, yet time stood still when he flushed the pills. I was too afraid that he’d tell someone, or worse—he’d stop talking to me.

But he cared. I knew he did.

I opened my notebook again, and this time when the pen touched the page, the words came easily.

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