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“No,” he admitted.

Mira was seventeen. She wore a leather jacket even in the heat and sat on her porch steps smoking thin cigarettes, blowing the smoke up at the sky like she was sending messages. Leo had never spoken to her, but he’d memorized the way she tucked her hair behind one ear, the way she laughed at her phone with her whole body. the missing -2014-

She did. He coughed. She called him a disaster. He decided he wanted to be a disaster forever. “No,” he admitted