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“You're really doing this, huh?”

“Doing what?” Ryder asksabout

Slance all around and holdon the old ball and chain”

Ryder chuckles as he buttons the cuff on his sleeve “When you say it like that, it reallyhis hands loosely down his arhtens the collar and adjusts the flower pinned to his lapel

“I don't I know exactly why, it's because you're a dick and no one else wants to be your friend” Grinning, he gives me a playful punch in the ar I' to make it”

I ether Jenna levels him out, and he does the same for her He's her stability, and she's his voice of reason Even as kids, I could see the way he looked at her and hoas different froirls And when she left, she was all he ever talked about, no matter how much he denied it when I pointed it out

Eventually, as the years went on, he spoke about her less frequently, but the look in his eyes when her na town changed him, and now that spark he had ere kids is back

It's a spark I've never felt before I thought itat soirlfriends, but it see for anyone

I can't lie and pretend I don’t feel a bit of jealousy, faint as a dying candle It’s there Ryder has the farether, the way they finish each other’s sentences, and I see the love they have for each other, it

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My job keepsI'uy around who knows a tractor inside and out I never intended for this to become my full time job, but the et