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    Shane’s heart drops into his stomach. “Ilya,” he breathes. His vision goes blurry, throat tight. He tries to swallow it down and focus, shove his swirling thoughts into a neat little box, but it’s impossible. He feels—he might throw up, actually. “Are you seriously telling me you tried to fucking kill yourself?”

    “Yes,” Ilya agrees blandly, “It did not work.”

    Ilya calls Shane from the hospital. Shane handles it very normally.

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    “Holy fucking shit, it all makes sense now. Lily is a dominatrix.”

    Or: Hayden is connecting the dots. Maybe.

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    Hayden hangs out in Shane's hospital room after his accident. He expects pain meds, worry, and maybe a lecture from a doctor. What he does not expect is Shane’s very secret, very real relationship with their biggest rival spilling out under the influence of morphine.

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    Wade is undoubtedly the world's worst barista and Peter has established a routine. By now, Peter has memorized the phone number written under his name on the cup, but Wade writes it until he says yes.

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    “Maybe—maybe Lily is sleeping,” she says. Bargaining, she realizes numbly. She’s bargaining for more time. And for whatever is unfolding here to stop unfolding and in fact fold itself back up. Her thumb shifts away from the call button. “And you should be sleeping too, mister.”

    “He’s not sleeping.” Shane flares his nostrils—another gesture Yuna hasn’t seen in so many years. “He’s waiting for me to call a third time. Mom. Please. He’s—he’ll be so worried.”

    Yuna shifts her thumb and lets it drop. Is Yuna a bad mother if she hopes "Lily" doesn’t pick up?

    -x-

    or: Shane needs to call someone the night he's laid out by Marlow, and Yuna reflects on her quietly, obsessively devoted son.

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