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I watched hi to put his thoughts together asto come to terms with the idea that Braden hadn’t moved on at all But I still couldn’t understand why Ellie would hurt etting so good at lying She couldn’t lie for shit when I met her

Oh

My fault?

"I still don’t understand I met Isla, buddy, she’s exactly your type, and she was definitely flirting with you"

"Why do you care?" he grinned, running his hands along my bookshelf "You said you don’t want--" he stopped, his body tense with a sudden alertness

"What?"

He pulled at so on my bookshelf, his head bowed, and then he turned tosoht to Virginia

My brain and e to decide whether this new information affectedthat was technically true "I’ home"

I kneas bad I kneas bad because Braden didn’t say anything He seared me into ain, and then he spun on his heel and slammed out of my room

No arguain Once I’d started down that path of giving into tears now after years of holding the theed h the rest of h to make everyone coffee and take it into Ellie’s room Braden sat in the corner and didn’t even look at me

Suffice to say we created a horrible tension in Ellie’s bedroo and everyone had heard Braden nearly splinter the wood on my bedroom door when he sla his ot up, kissed her forehead, and told her he’d check in later Ellie nodded, biting her lip in worry as she watched hiuilty school child, I quickly glanced away

Elodie and Clark left soon after and I was just getting up to leave her and Ada on with you and Braden?"

"Ellie, I’ you into our drama when you’re still in recovery"

"Is it about that tiny white lie I told you about Isla?"

I spun around, my eyebrow raised at Ellie’s shamefaced expression "Yeah I just found out about that"

Ellie glanced at Ada"

He nodded "I’ that What happened?"

"I told Joss that you and I had lunch with Isla and Braden and they were all over each other"

Her boyfriend reared back just like Braden had In fact I noticed the two of them had quite a lot of siether "We never had lunch with thea at a patient "Why would you lie to et herself out of etting in your face all the ti, he’d come up with this stupid plan to back off and make you miss him so much you came back to him I told him you were too stubborn to fall for it"

Actually, I had beenhim Bastard knew me too well "M really obstinate, Joss I thought if I provoked your jealousy you’d get scared and go running off to get him back" Her face was pale as she looked into Adam’s eyes "It really backfired"

"I can see that," henot smile

This was not funny!