Note: I ended up moving this scene and rewriting it since I think it fits better here, leaving the original on chapter 11 for now in case you wanna compare :)
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Rationally, he knew he was doing the right thing keeping his distance from Ray. But it felt like he was being shredded from the inside out, heart first.
Skipping school was more than tempting, it felt necessary. But that was precisely why Ray couldn’t let himself do it. He’d just lost his boyfriend and his best friend in one night, and he knew very we