Chapter 32 (Short)

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Darryl - Third-Person POV + Thoughts

"Nick...?"

He stood there, hands in his pockets and a guilty look on his face. "How'd you get in?" Darryl stood up and asked firmly. "I mean, the door is unlocked, Jacob and Dylan are outside, and I'm assuming everyone else is upstairs."

Jeez, we are so dumb.

"Fair answer." Darryl walked downstairs. "What do you want?" He asked, heightening his voice at the end of his sentence. "I wanted to visit. I'm pretty alone beside the cat I found. I named him Storm 'cause he's gray and dark gray." Darryl looked into Nick's eyes and turned away, walking into the kitchen.

"Do you wanna just say hi and leave?" He asked, opening a cabinet to search for food. "Sure. I won't talk to Dave if he doesn't want to talk to me." Darryl nodded and went back to searching while Nick headed upstairs.

Nick - Third-Person POV + Thoughts

Soft cries could be heard coming from the bathroom. It sounded like George so Nick went over to the door and knocked. "Come in." He heard Vincent say. Nick opened the door and Vincent seemed to jump. "W- Why are you here? How did you get in?" "Darryl said I could say hi before going back home. Speaking of, I see you guys packed. Are you moving in? With me, I mean." Vincent nodded.

"Oh. Is Clay coming?" Vincent shook his head. "Why? What'd he do?" Nick perked up more. "Cheated..." "Hm... Well, c'mon. I'll help you with your stuff." Vincent nodded again and came out from under the counter. "Let's go, George." Vincent held out his hand, kneeling down. George grabbed it and came out from underneath the counter as well.

Nick grabbed the heavier bags - which there were only 2 of - and Vincent and George grabbed the rest - consisting of only 3 bags.

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Allow me to explain - So, basically, I wanted to start working on another book that I'll probably start publishing when it's close to finished. It'll be called "Once Again" and it's based on the book "They Cage the Animals at Night." If you have read it and plan on reading my book then I just wanna say that it isn't meant to be an exact copy just changing the names.

The main character is Caliya and she isn't meant to be a copy of Jennings :)

I wanted to put this out as something like a distraction or place holder (including the last chapter). When I come back to working on this book full time I'll try my best to write about 1500 words :D

Love you muffins!! <3

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