Please, Max. Did this mean you were going to let go of his shoulders now? Please let the answer be yes.

"The hell's with everyone turning evil..." Vinnie scowled. By the way this school just loved to heap misfortune on him, it felt like an inevitability that he was gonna go psycho too. He hated the idea of not having control of himself like that.

"Whatever. I was dead, and it was fuckin' miserable. There's nothing you can throw at me now that's worse than that, I guarantee you."