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“Do you have sweats?”

“That’s all I have” She pulled the ht anything else in o shopping for anything else in this e size”

“That’s perfect then,” Nellie said “Because these are one week passes to the gym over on Fifth Street”

Veronica gaped at her “A gyym on Fifth Street

“Yes, a gyrabbed her hand and pulled “I’ht as an excuse to bury yourself froether”

Veronica groaned as she got up off the sofa “I didn’t know there was a gym on Fifth Street Are you sure?” She took the tickets froular paper even cut a bit raggedly “Where did you get these?”

“Never you ym over at theaway from” She shoved Veronica toward the front door “This is a sh to offer free one week passes We’ll do a week and then depending on how you feel we can sign up for more”

Veronica tried to protest about not having a gy but as usual, Nellie was one-step ahead of her “I have everything we need in the car Just grab your keys and wallet No excuses”

For months, Nellie had done her best to try to pull Veronica out of her funk, and Veronica hated to sound so ungrateful She seriously doubted she could even do one ju over but she’d humor her friend this one tiht

On the drive over, Nellie told her about the gyy once upon a tih that Veronica wouldn’t feel overwhelmed Great Nellie had told her husband what a fat pathetic herave ht this would be perfect”

Veronica didn’t even atteh she suspected it was a bit of an act They’d been best friends since they were kids and she’d done everything to try and cheer Veronica up after herVeronica knew about Nellie was that she hated working out So, as usual, this was a co Veronica out of the cave she called her home Just one of the reasons that made Veronica love and appreciate her best friend even more