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Sage
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AFTER MY SHOWER, I heated up some leftover Pad Thai, grabbed my laptop, and then settled into my sofa. Curious to learn more about the Gold Vipers, I decided to Google the club. Although I’d seen them driving around town on their obnoxiously loud motorcycles, I knew little about them other than that they were thugs. It made me wonder what had drawn Caden to such a group. Of course, I also really knew very little of him. The guy was as mysterious now as he was back when we were teenagers. It still stung that he’d ghosted me after summer camp. For a while we’d texted back and forth, but then, suddenly and without warning, there’d been dead silence on his end. Hurt and confused, I eventually realized that he’d moved on to someone else. What had happened that summer hadn’t m
