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I go to the foot of the bed and pick up the wooden piece, carrying it over to the balcony I open the sliding glass door and haul the footboard over to the railing Seeing Cassie’s car parked right under me, I say, "Fuck it," and toss it over It lands in her back seat,me smile I do the same with the two side rails; these round

Cassie has no idea what’s going on; she is still pounding on the bedroo much heavier, I scoot it across the hardwood floors and out onto the balcony I lift it over the railing, where it teeters before falling over the other side; the loud crunching sound of glass andas she leaves the door I quickly get theit over the edge too Withlike never before, I look down and watch as it floats like a feather in slowwith a little bounce on the hood of her car

Cassie starts screas then pulls her phone out of her pocket

"Shit," I whisper I know she’s calling the cops I start wondering where I should hide when the house phone starts ringing I see the phone on the nightstand light up, and I debate if I should answer it or not when it stops ringing only to start up again My gut clenches, and I knoithout a doubt that it’s Kenton calling

"What in God’s na on?" I hear fro me? Why me? Why does this stuff always happen to , seeing Nancy and Viv Both are standing near Cassie, who is still on the phone Viv looks up and I start to duck, but I’m too late; our eyes ing again I don’t really want to talk to Kenton, but right now, he’s the lesser of two evils "Hello," I answer, trying to make myself sound like I didn’t just toss his bed outside and that his et o crazy on him as well

"Babe," he answers back, the one word said in a tone sounding slightly hu around his roo it in for the first time If Cassie did help decorate, she did a crap job There are two nightstands, one on each side of where the bed used to be Both are older; theaway The dresser in the corner of the roo else in the roos, no curtains; the rooreat rooe paint on the walls looks neith beautiful, dark wood floors throughout, large s that look out over the forest, and the sliding glass door that leads to a large balcony I can ie to ron the line

"Are you listening to me?"

"Um…"

"I asked if you really just tossed my bed over the balcony and onto Cassie’s car," he says in the sary tone

"Oh, I…" I try to come up with some other reason why I would have done what I just did withoutlie," he says, cuttingto say

"I wasn’t going to lie," I snap, knowing that I was perhaps going to fib a little about what happened, but I wasn’t going to lie

"Autumn," he rumbles out

"Okay, yes," I huff out, annoyed "I tossed your bed onto her car Well, really, I tossed her bed into her car, so I was just helping herhow stupid that sounds

"You were helping her rowling or laughing "What the hell happened?"

"I went to ht and I needed et into the house and lock the door, but she grabbed my hair I may have smacked her, and then sheotten pissed, ran up to your room, and threw your bed over the balcony onto her car Oh, and your ht now" I whisper the last part, out of breath

"You were jealous," he says, sounding slightly surprised