“Uh? Oh, um… thank you….Wait, Max? Is that you?”
“…” His face turned light pink. “I… I really like him….”
Carlos folded his arms. “You like him… but you want to risk getting him in trouble?”
“N-no! I’d never…” He sighed, running a hand through his messy hair. “I just wanted him to be happy… he always talks about how much he’d want to rob a store and… how he wanted a new car…” Pure slightly bit his lip. “I just wanted him to be happy…. I never thought we’d actually go that far….”
“That’s what he told me as well,” Carlos said to him. “That he just wanted to please you, and he didn’t think it’d go that far. Am I to really assume that things just… developed that way on their own?”
He nodded. “Everything just… happened..!” He sighed. “As soon as we were in the car is just.. everything just happened…”
“So the car lured you in like a siren song and just drove you to the stores? Gave you masks and weapons?” The sarcasm was dripping in Carlos’ voice, but he wanted the kid to understand that he had to actually own up to what they did.
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