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2025-01-27 05:14:34Morris's Point of View.
"You have been awfully quiet since you got into the car." Maybe it was all the bumping. Or perhaps it was the pizza, but Carson hadn't said a word since we left the house.
He turned and stared at me for a while, as if trying to decode what I had just said. "Huh?" He asked after a few seconds, proofing my point. Something was up with him.
"You have been quiet. Are you having second thoughts about this?" I knew I was having second thoughts of my own, there was no need denying it to myself. Maybe the fact that I was a little bit nervous that we were going on a mission as dangerous as this on our own would make me more agile. More quick and fast.
"No. No, I just... I think I overate that's all." He said. He was lying. I co
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