"Yes. If it did, then they would have seen me stop somewhere for several weeks and come to destroy the Smoke right away." Tally's thought this through dozens of times. Sometimes it just feels easier to blame Shay for putting the thought in her head that she should pretend the locket was from a crush. But Shay wasn't even watching her with David that night. She'd never needed to destroy it. There's no way to get around the thought.