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please, just shut up.”
    He looks at me, shocked for a second, then snaps his mouth shut and looks out the window. All I had wanted when he was asleep was for him to wake up so I could ask him about his damn love life. Now that he was awake, I knew that conversation wasn’t going to take place. He was way too on edge about everything I said, or did; he was never going to open up to me about anything serious.
    And if he wasn’t going to tell me what I wanted to know, if he wasn’t going to have any kind of normal conversation with me, if he was just going to yell at me, I would rather he just not talk to me at all. At least for now, at least until I got this over with.
    I was so scared and nervous. I had no idea what I was walking into; I didn’t even know what had happened between Stephanie and her mom. For all I know they could hate each other, or her mom could have just gotten out of jail, or something. Oh my god, what if she was like a felon, or something? What if she punched me in the face for even coming there? Maybe she had left Stephanie for a reason, I had no idea about any of it.
    Not to mention I still didn’t know how I was going to get Nathan to stay in the car. He loved to disagree with anything I said. As soon as I told him it was probably a good idea for him to stay in the car he was only going to want to come in with me even more. How was I supposed to explain that? I couldn’t really have a heart to heart with Stephanie’s mom about the wellness center with Nathan standing right next to me.
    “You still haven’t told me where you have to go, you know?” Nathan says, as if he can read my thoughts.
    It’s true, I hadn’t. Every time he would bring it up when we left school I would just ignore him, or change the subject. I didn’t want to lie though, so I figured playing dumb about everything was the best way to go. Smart, huh?
    “I just have to go and visit an old friend’s mom for her,” I say, choosing my words carefully. It wasn’t really a lie, Stephanie was kind of my friend, and I was doing it for her.
    “Why can’t she go herself?” I think I hear a hint of suspicion in Nathan’s voice as he asks this, but it’s hard to tell for sure. His tone is softer now, almost like he’s trying to not come off as rude, so I don’t snap at him again.
    “She’s, kind of, tied up at the moment.” It occurs to me suddenly that she really could be tied up right now. Sometimes if you were out of control at the wellness center they would strap you down. It had only happened to me when I first got there and was freaking out, but Stephanie was definitely getting strapped down a lot. She was a fighter. The thought suddenly makes me feel like I’m going to be sick. That was the problem; someone like Stephanie probably wouldn’t get out anytime soon. The more you didn’t play by their rules, the more you didn’t do exactly what they wanted, the more hopeless they thought you were, and the longer they thought you needed to stay. Stephanie wasn’t going to get out, she wasn’t like me, she hadn’t figured it out. And if she had, she was too stubborn and impulsive to put in the work that needed to be done to trick them.
    I realize how happy I am to be doing this. Like all at once I realize just how meaningful what I’m doing is. Eric was right when he told me if I could help someone get out of there, then I had to do it. I had to do the right thing, and more and more I was starting to feel like this was it.
    “Tied up where? You mean at a boarding school, or something?” Nathan asks, looking out the window now, like the answer doesn’t really matter to him.
    “You could say that.” Again, not a complete lie, they did try to make you go to classes in the wellness center. Not that most of the kids bothered with that, but it was still sort of like a school, in a way, kind of. Oh, who am I kidding? I’m grasping at straws. I glance down at the GPS, only a few miles to go now. I feel the