CHAPTER 99
Gareth grinned at him. He'd been growing out his hair ever since graduation, and now had it tied back in a low bun. "You'll see." Cooper watched the other boy saunter back out into the main floor, bemused. They weren't friends, exactly —and they probably never would be. Unlike Ryan, Cooper and Gareth had a tumultuous past. But Cooper had to give it to the guy: Gareth had changed over the last year. He'd become...tolerable. Likeable, even. I guess that's what happens when you lose everything, Cooper mused, knotting the back of his apron. And Gareth had lost everything. His coke addiction had cost him his spot on both the football and baseball teams his senior year, dashing his dreams of an athletic scholarship. His on-again-off-again girlfriend, Astrid, had transferred schools.
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