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Julian lit up when he sawhis arreeting, so I swept hiainst his hair "Hey, there, handsoht for sore eyes"

"Buh buh," he repeated, pressing his chubby palainst my cheeks "Buh buh"

"Okay, okay," I caved "You want bubbles, I got it You know, you’re lucky I re souerly as I unwrapped it and stuck it in my mouth

"Buh buh Buh buh"

"Give me a second to chew, kid" I choet you a bubble"

Pick leaned his back against the wall and stuck his hands in his pockets as he watched us, s his head "You’re just as bad as everyone else with spoilingas spoiling a baby this cute Isn’t that right, handsoue, I blew a bubble, and Julian squealed with glee as he slapped his hand over h the whole chewing, blowing, popping thing again a few ti his chest through his shirt "I’ to make so Julian, I followed Pick into his kitchen, and it finally hit me how quiet the place was Yeesh, I must’ve been a bit too preoccupied with Knox to even think of anything else "Is Eva not hoet some clothes for Parker"

I paused, still unsettled to hear that nairls have always been early risers; they like to get all the shopping done before we guys even roll out of bed," he was saying as he pulled down coffee filters and a can of ground beans

"Clothes?" was all I could think to utter

He glanced back and lifted an eyebrow "Yeah Clothes He had nothing when I found hiotten free maybe an hour before He wasn’t even aware his old house had burned down or, you know, anything about his faasped and sank into the nearest chair I found Julian pattedanother bubble, so I blew one without thinking "He really didn’t know? About anyone? No one notified him at all when practically his entire fa the bearer of bad news"

"Oh God That’s where he met Zoey, wasn’t it? At the convenience store where his house used to be?"

Pick nodded "Yep"

I hugged Julian close to me "Poor Knox"

"That’s basically how I felt The guy had just done a good deed for our Zoey, all the while he was hoed "I brought him back here, and we stuffed hiht, but it didn’t fit him well, so Tink’s taken it upon herself to make sure he’s properly clothed"

A little swirl of jealousy curled throughcare of hi ht T-shirt coirlfriend, I had to be the worst person ever But then so else Pick had said flittered to the surface

"Wait You brought hihter, glancing around "He’s staying here, with you guys?"

"Except he didn’t coht after work," he answered me before I could ask "So I don’t knohere he is at the moment"

When a soft tap caasped I don’t kno I knew, but I knew It was Knox I lurched tothere had to be a way to prepare I probably looked like shit with ed in the dark to change into I hadn’t even had my first cup of coffee for the day

But everything was happening regardless

Pick was leaving the kitchen to answer the knock, so I rushed after him His body blocked my view as he opened the door, but I could tell from the set of his shoulders and how he let out a relieved breath who he was greeting

"So you decided to couess I really don’t have anywhere else to go" The low, gravelly voice I’d heard the night before filled the apartment and made me shiver