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CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN—
are we falling like snow on the beach

i'm really sorry, yall. episode six literally was NOT loading for me at all. idk why but it's just not working this time around for some reason. so, y'all can kinda just imagine harvey and logan in the og storyline. yk what happened..got bode back, saved rufus, dodge gone for good, sam is bolton now. yk but just to refresh your memory before i jump into episode seven without being able to include six in this book.

"You're Sam?" Nina scoffed as she stared at the Bolton version of him.

"In this body." he held his hands up some.

"He was a ghost." Bode explained to his Mom. "Mom, he saved us."

"Bode." Harvest couldn't help but scold him. Perhaps he was right, sure. But to use those words after he killed their father, after he took the one person who knew her the best away, it made Harvest sick to hear those words come out of her brothers mouth.

"No, he let us out of the pantry. It's hardly saving us." Nine glared as she rose her voice.

"No, before." Bode corrected her. "He taught me how to guide the birds so I could go back into my own body. And he showed Kinsey where to turn the Angel Key."

Nina stared at her kids. "So, you guys are all right with him being here?"

"Hell no." the redhead stated as she stood up straighter, Logan turned his head to prepare to take her side. "Far from it."

No one else seemed to care.

"Mrs.Locke.." Sam trialed off. "I can never apologize enough for what I did to you and your family. Even if Dodge manipulated me, I won't make any excuses for it. All I can say is i'm sorry."

"Okay." Harvest scoffed under her breath as she straightened her back to be upright.

"I am more sorry than you could ever imagine." Sam swore to them as his voice cracked.

"If you expect me to forgive you-" her voice cracked in return.

"I don't expect you to." he cut her off with a reassuring head shake. "I'm... i'm just-I just want the opportunity to help you and your family."

Harvest didn't meet his eye when he looked over. Nina stepped forward. "Kinsey."

She hesitated. "I'm not ready to forgive him either...but he did help us."

"Right now-" Tyler inhaled deeply. "-we need some more help."

"All right," she whispered. "but that's as far as it goes."

Sam smiled and nodded. "Fair enough."

Logan rubbed Harvest on the back.

"Tyler, you, me, Rufus, and Sam, we'll go after Ellie. Mom, Bode, Logan, Harvey, you guys try and break into the Harlequin Chest." Kinsey looked between the divided groups. "Get the rest of the keys."

"With these muscles?" Logan gave a dramatic flex as Harvest clasped her hand over her eyes. "Anything is possible."

"Okay." Nina braced herself.

"Jesus chr-" Logan yelled out as his so called muscles absolutely did not do a single thing.

"Mm, thoight anything was possible?" Harvest asked from where she smoked at the window.

"I'd like to see your weak arms try." he complained, trying to break it open and falling onto the ground. "Holy mother. God, I hate magic."

"It's okay, hun. You'll get em next time." Harvey put the cigarette out and shut the window, looking toward her Mom and Bode as they walked in with a saw. "Everyone place your bets. Sharp blade versus Logan's muscles."

"Don't mock me." he panted from the ground.

"You really think this is gonna work?" Nina looked to Bode as she kneeled down next to the chest and Logan.

"When they build this thing, there weren't any power tools, right?" Bode pointed out as he sat next to her.

"Good point." Harvest walked over and patted Logan on the stomach. "Sadly, there were men with muscles."

"So, Bode, when Dodge was in your body, the way you were acting with Josh, that was all Dodge, right?" Nina asked Bode as Harvest plugged in the tool. "You like Josh."

"He's fine ." he spoke in hesitation. "Can we really trust him? He was trying to find the Blaxk Door."

"I was related to Lucas." Logan gave a point. "You trust me?"

"Yeah, but you didn't know. Plus, Lucas wasn't bad. He was just...questionable and under the keys manipulation." Bode explained with a shrug.

Harvest gave a fake gasp as she looked down at Logan. "You are also questionable."

"He didn't actually know what it was." Nina defended Josh to Bode. "And, yes, I trust him completely."

Bode sighed as he stood up. "Let's just open up the chest. Try the saw."

Logan rolled away as Harvest backed up, watching as the saw did absolutely nothing. Just as the drill did not long after. Right before lighting the chest on fire did just as badly when the rain chose to protect it.

So, they resulted to the well house.

"Echo!" Harvest yelled down the well.

"Bad idea." Bode gave her an alarming look. "Come on. Even if he gets the last key from Ellie, he'll never be able to get the rest of the keys from the chest without walking into the well house."

"Not bad." Nina smiled as they all left the chest on the well.

"Gimme some skin." Logan held his hand out for a high five as Harvrst granted him one.

"What!" Bode yelled as they walked into the house, greeted with the chest right infront of staircase.

"Jesus Magic is insane." Harvest rubbed her forehead.

"What the hell, Jesus Magic!" Logan yelled up the sky.

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kylie speaks

jesus, what the fuck?
no, seriously. what the fuck?