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I blinked a few times when I heard my mom say my name

“Huh?” I glanced at the girl, Anabelle, to see her s of myself

“You guys will be going to the same school She’s a sophohbors “Kevin’ll have to show her around and introduce her to soroup of kids We’ve known arten”

“Oh, how fantastic” Anabelle’s moreat here No need to worry about a new school and not fitting in”

I looked back at Anabelle just in tiine her not fitting in She had an aura, so over each other to get to know her

“Sure I’ll show you around It’s a cool place and everyone is really nice,” I tried to reassure her She only nodded when my mom cut in

“Natasha, I have to ask where you got the dress It’s gorgeous”

“Oh, this old thing” She waved her hand before resting it on Anabelle’s shoulder “I got it a few years ago fro it out of the back of the closet when she was picking out ht She always helps ”

My hed at the joke, but I saw the way Ana’s shoulders tensed and how she forced a sht shoulders in my hands to soothe her After only ten minutes, I wanted to take on her stress Instead, I offered a friendly s it helped

“Nashville?” Dad asked “Is that where you’refrom?”

“Yes My husband and I recently separated and just us girls arehere to be closer to friends”

Ana’s jaw flexed and her lips pinched leading me to assume it wasn’t the smoothest of separations

“Well, we’re happy to have you here,”a beat from her years as the perfect politician’s wife “Kevin, why don’t you two grab a drink and then head up to the bonus roo back to Ana’s hborhood and not a lot of kids to keep each other coh his friends don’t live too far away It will be nice to have so so close by”