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"Exactly!" she says "There’s a time and a place for your stupid nicknames and immature antics and dinner with my parents isn’t the time or the place!"

I rub my hands over my face out of frustration, then I turn and look at her "This istoward ot serious issues, Val I’ and honestly, it wouldn’t be fair of e, either I would never ask you to pretend to be so of e and I would really like it if you would get the hell out ofnauseous"

Her eyes narrow and she grabs her purse off the console and pulls it toward her "Oh, that’s nice, Daniel Insult et back at me See what I mean? You’re the epitome of immature" She opens the car door and unbuckles her seatbelt

"Well at least I’ly

She shakes her head "I can’t do this any out of the car "We’re done, Daniel For good this tih for her to hear me She slams her door and marches toward her house I roll down herto air out the perfume and I back out of the driveway

Where the hell is Holder? If I don’t get to co screa on the floor, ruh pictures She looks up and smiles as I make my way into her room "Hey, Daniel," she says

"Hey, Cheese Tits," I say as I drop down onto her bed "Where’s your hopeless boyfriend?"

She nudges her head toward her bedroo ice cream You want some?"

"Nah," I say "I’ht now"

She laughs "Val having a bad day?"

"Val’s having a bad life," I say "And after tonight I’ve finally realized I don’t want to be a part of it"

She raises her eyebrows "Oh, yeah? Sounds serious this tio And who’s they?"

She shoots me a confused look, so I clarifyice cream Who’s they?"

Sky opens her s open and Holder walks in with tls of ice crea behind hi out of her mouth She pulls the spoon from her lips and kicks the bedroom door shut with her foot, then turns toward the bed and stops when she sees uely familiar, but I can’t place her Which is odd because she’s cute as hell and I feel like I should probably know her name or remember where I’ve seen her, but I don’t

She walks to the bed and sits down on the opposite end of it, eyeing me the whole time She dips her spoon into her ice cream, then puts the spoon back in herat that spoon I think I love that spoon

"What are you doing here?" Holder asks I regretfully take my eyes off the Ice Cream Girl and watch as he takes a seat on the floor next to Sky and picks up a few of the pictures

"I’s out in front ofcrazy"

"But I thought that’s why you loved her," he says ht, Dr Shitmitten"

Sky takes one of the pictures out of Holder’s hands "I think he’s actually serious this time," she says to him "No more Val" Sky tries to look sad for my sake, but I know she’s relieved Val never really fit in with the two of them Now that I think about it, she never really fit in with me, either

Holder looks up at ood? Really?" He sounds oddly impressed

"Yeah, really, really"

"Who’s Val?" Ice Cream Girl asks "Or better yet, who are you?"

"Oh, my bad," Sky interrupts She points back and forth between Ice Cream Girl and me "Six, this is Dean’s best friend, Daniel Daniel, this is et used to hearing Sky call hiives ain Six pulls it out of her mouth and points it at me "Nice to meet you, Daniel," she says

How in the hell can I steal that spoon before she leaves?

"Why does your nas "I dunno Maybe because six is a fairly co whore I ah, because her co "No, that’s not it," I say, still confused as to why her name sounds so familiar I don’t think Sky has ever mentioned her in front of me before

"The party last year," Holder says, forcing ain I’m pretty sure I roll my eyes when I have to look away from her, but I don’t mean to I’d just much rather stare at her than at Holder "Reot back froht Grayson puinity?"