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"Nope I’? I’ll pass that underneath the curtain"

"You’re the best"

"So…" There was a pause next door "Looks like you and Peyton are getting along"

As Novo arched into the spray and started the ten-ut tightened

"I saw hi at you back there," Paradise prompted over the rushes of water

Was she jealous? Novo wondered God, let’s not get weird here

"He’s a pretty chill guy," shepart of the stall, the conditioner slid into view, and Novo picked it up even though she wasn’t quite ready She was still rinsing when the other feed in her towel, Paradise was dressed and at thearound the stand of lockers, Novo dried off and threw on a fresh set of leathers and ato co when Paradise put her head around the corner

"Okay, I’ over here"

Novo popped her brows "Really? ’Cuz your coloring looks fine and you don’t see on with you two?"

"Why don’t you ask him?"

"I could do that I could"

As the other feue with her patrician blond beauty and her elegant, expensive, I’s up And as she went down the lengths, she studied the other fe on Just a wide-open, slightly surprised curiosity

Novo didn’t say anything until it was rubber-band time at the ends "You really are just friends with him, aren’t you"

Paradise nodded "Only ever just friends" The feh And I love the way he looks at you It’s what I’ve always hoped he’d find"

"We’re not together or anything I "

Shit, she sounded defensive Then again, she could never have i this kind of conversation--for a whole crap load of reasons

Paradise ss and emotions can be like ninjas, all stealth and--"

"Deadly They’re deadly"

Paradise frowned "No, I was going to say they come out of nowhere"

"Well…look, I don’t have much to say on this"

"I’m sorry" Paradise’s perfectly arched eyebrows tilted in at the corners in worry "I shouldn’t have brought it up It’s none of my business"

"Nah, it’s cool We’re cool"

As the female seee to hug her--but she sto? What the hell?

"I’ll see you on the bus," Paradise said as she shouldered her duffel "And I won’t say anything to anyone, not even Craeg"

"It’s okay" And interestingly, that was the truth "I don’t have anything to hide--because there’s nothing e on"

After Paradise left the locker room, she took a moment to be astounded Ordinarily, a conversation like that would have rattled her Not anyht