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"Happy noises?"

"Yeah, like when you--" She broke off as she felt her cheeks flaain and she clapped her hands to thehed

"Stop it," she said

"No, I want to hear this," he said "I make the same happy noises when I what?"

"You knohat"

"Tellback on to wrap his arainst her knees With his face practically in her lap he smiled up at her "Tell me a dirty story, Lily"

With all those hard, warht off one of Jonathan’s favorite Tu hih all the reed "Very, very bad"

She leaned back to grab the bag she’d brought and handed it over to him "Gray said you had to open this in front ofbeneath his nose

He took it, looked inside, and blew out a breath "Son of a bitch" He said this almost conversationally

"What is it?" she asked

"You didn’t look?"

"No"

He pulled out a pair of men’s briefs with little red hearts mixed with little red lips all over theer "Are those … yours?" she asked

"No," he said, sounding disgusted

"Gray’s"

"They’d better not be"

"I don’t understand," she said

"Yeah, because you don’t have any asshole brothers--a fact for which you should be eternally grateful"

She blinked "I still don’t get it"

"I have to wear these tomorrow no matter what my day looks like, and if Gray or Hudson show up, I have to drop trou and prove I’ not to laugh "Noat the tiri the night before a ood," he admitted reluctantly "Especially when Gray had to do so that saie all day long"