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" His grip on the wheel tightened as we left the limits of DC and reached the beltway. Through the blur of rain pelting the windows, we could just make out the shapes of the new highway lights and cameras that would be installed over the next few months. Right now, though, our only real sources of light were the car itself and the glow of the capital's light pollution.
"Did I really always side with him?" I wondered aloud "I swear I didn't mean to...."
Chubs risked a quick glance at me, then fixed his eyes back on the road. "It's not about choosing sides. I shouldn't have ever said that. I'm sorry. You know how I get when my blood sugar is low. He's Lee–he's funny and nice and he dresses like a walking hug."
He does wear a lot of flannel," I said. But you're those things, too. Don't make that face just to try to prove me wrong. You are."
"I don't feel that way," he admitted. "But I always got that you guys had something different. I respect that. I've never been... It's harder for me to open up to people."
The headlights caught the raindrops sliding off the windshield and made them glow like shooting tars.
He was making it sound like one friendship was better or more important than the other. That wasn't true. They were just different. The love was exactly the same. They only difference was that Liam had lost a little sister; a part of me had always felt like he wanted to prove to himself that he could save at least one of us.
"I always understood you," I told him. "Just like you always understood me. "
― Alexandra Bracken , The Darkest Legacy (The Darkest Minds, #4)
