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I follow Oliver out the front door, both of us grabbing our coats from the rack in the entryway We step out onto the stoop lit by a single yellow bulb and he lights up

"Nasty habit, dude," I say as I flickthat up anytime soon, do you?" he says, and then proceeds to showback against the iron porch rail that trails down the steps "What Nina sees in you is beyond me"

"It’s true love," is all Oliver says as he takes another drag Then he gives rin "Dude…I can’t believe you just showed up"

"I had so "And a visit with your parents is long overdue"

I really shouldn’t have taken the tiaave ional jet here so I could visitwith Vale?

Oh, who a? Asif I said I wasn’t pulled here by Vale I can barely see about her

Missing her

So fucking much it almost makes , looking out over the yard I hesitate ah my hair, I ask, "How is she?"

His head snaps my way and his eyebrows raise up in surprise "Who? Vale?"

"Well who else?" I snap at hi s, and exhales slowly "I haven’t seen her much Avery sees her almost every day"

"And?" I pro this

"How is she doing?" I grit out