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I laughed

"Or two, or three for that hed "Emilio!"

"Okay" I put my hand over histhe ht my hand back

Max opened his mouth

I shook rin I pulled in hiood, Max You did real good"

He hugged ht Don’t go doing that disappearing act once things get hot and heavy My advice is thistake it or leave it"

"I’ his arms wide, "is like a box of chocolates"

I rolled my eyes "I think I kno this ends"

"You buy the box because you think you want variety, but if you’re really honest with your greedy little self, all you really want are the caramel ones But they don’t sell chocolates that way, so you do what everyone else does You follow the crowd and try ones you know you’re going to hate Why?"

I sed "Because you’re trying to find the caramel ones"

Max nodded "Exactly You think, et lucky, only you’re left disappointed when it turns out to be some weird coconut shit"

"Or hazelnut"

Max nodded "Or even dark chocolate, which, let’s be honest"

"Isn’t caramel," I finished My eyes for some reason filled up with tears as Max put a hand on ed "

"Yeah"

"You’ve found your caramel," Max said softly "But you’ve refused to bite"

"But--"

"Biting," Max said with a shrug, "can be scaryterrifying, hell, what if you don’t even like cara if Max had puh on ’shroo sense was scarier