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Can we leave? Walt asked, in the middle of third period. I don’t want to be here anymore.

Like leave school or just this room?

I want to take us somewhere.

They texted Annie, Yulia, and his ma that his stomach hurt and walked out the door.

They headed to the bus stop, and Walt wasted more of Hollis’s money. Rode until the trees cleared and the air smelled like water and river greens. Got off at the last stop.