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going to change.
    “Hey.” I nodded at
Vincent who was sitting at the table with a stack of books in front of him. “ Wassup .”
    “Trying to figure
out these equations.” He sighed and slammed the book shut and jumped up. “Where
have you been?”
    “At the pier. It
took longer than I thought it would.” I opened the fridge and grabbed a Bud Light.
“Want one?” I lifted the can up to Vincent.
    “Nah.” He stared
at me. “You should have told me, I would have come.”
    “I work best
alone.” I shrugged.
    “You need a
lookout, you know that.” He sighed.
    “You got an exam
tomorrow.” I walked to the kitchen. “You need to focus.”
    “It doesn’t
matter, I’ll fail anyway.”
    “Hold on.” I put
my hand up, walked to the living room, threw the beer to my dad, who was
staring at The Simpsons on TV and
mumbling, and then I walked back to the kitchen. I looked around and resisted
the urge to start shouting about the mess. The sink was full of dirty dishes,
and there was food all over the counters and on the floor. “Where’s Jared?”
    “ Dunno .” Vincent sat back down and opened his book. I sat
down at the table with him and studied his serious face. I wanted to tell him
about my night. Not about the thrill of stealing the car; he knew what that was
like already. I wanted to tell him about Maddie, and how she had lit my heart
on fire, and how we had made sweet, hard, passionate love in the grass, and how
I had thought I was going to explode from the sensations. I wanted to tell him
how sweet the sound of Maddie screaming out my name had been. But I kept my
mouth shut.
    “You okay, Logan?”
Vincent looked at me in concern, his blue eyes worried. He ran a hand through
his spiky black hair and he leaned towards me. “Did something happen tonight?”
    “No. Nothing
happened.” I faked a smile and hit him in the arm. “You don’t know who I am?
I’m Logan Martelli , the cops can’t keep up with me.”
    “Ha, ha, I almost
forgot you’re Logan Martelli .” He smiled and me and
then sighed.
    “What’s wrong,
Vincent?”
    “I just don’t
think I can do this.” He nodded at the books on the table. “I’m too stupid to understand
this crap.”
    “You’re not too
stupid for anything.” I gave him a stern look. “Let’s have a look.” I opened
his book and saw the page on quadratic equations. “I can help you with this, I
was pretty good in math.”
    “You were good in
everything.” He laughed and sat back. “Genius of the family.”
    “Well, you’re the
college boy, so I expect you’re just as much of a genius as me.”
    “I don’t know if
I’d say I’m a college boy. More like a hopeful community college man.”
    “Community college
is still college, you’ll still get a degree. And then you can go on to a four-year
university.”
    “I don’t know
about all that.”
    “You’ll do fine.
Now go take a five-minute break, let me look over the problems, and I’ll help
you, okay?”
    “Okay, thanks,
Logan.” He jumped up. “You’re the best.”
    “Yeah, yeah.” I
rolled my eyes and watched as he ran up the stairs. I sat back in my chair and
closed my eyes for a second. I was worried that Vincent was going to drop out
of community college and that everything would be for nothing. At twenty-two,
Vincent was one of the oldest freshmen students at River Valley Community
College, but I was so proud of him. Even though I had been pushing him for a
long time to get a college education, he had ignored me. It was only when he
got busted for smoking pot on the beach with some of his friends that he
decided to enroll. Thanks to the judge, it was community college or jail. I
hadn’t told anyone, but I was glad Vincent had been caught that night. I didn’t
want a life of crime for him and Jared. I wanted them to go to school and get
out of River Valley. They didn’t need this life.
    “Okay, back. You
ready to teach me, Einstein?” Vincent ran back into the kitchen. “And I