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And so version--The Saga of Tristan and Danika

The battles and the victories

The defeats and the triuedies and the trials

So up, which I’d never seen him do, and I tried to tell it all with less dramatic flair, but it hat it was

"Wait, so you haven’t told him that you can’t…?" he asked, somewhere near the end

I looked down at my lap "I don’t kno"

"I’ed it off "Anyway, do you ht I should ask first, because of, well, you know And as I’athered, he’s the insanely jealous type He was none too pleased when he heard I was going to dinner with a man"

"I don’t mind at all I don’t keep our relationship under wraps, Danika I’ht, because of your mother, you’d want to keep it secret"

"You’re not a secret, you’re a person My parents’ e is their business, and it will never affect the fact that you are ood brother

I went straight to Tristan’s after dinner

He was still tense and upset, but nothing like he’d been when I’d gone to lunch with Andrew

"Okay, let ht away "What’s the big mystery about this buddy of yours?"

"He’s ht out of him It was kind of nice I had a briefI could bottle that ability up It wouldfor the second ti Tristan the full rundown on my deadbeat dad

"Your dad hit on you?" he asked, shocked

"You saw uess he has a type"

"Don’t try to pretend that is even re his ass Period That is happening Fuck, I think I’ve ht that about suh his house, up the stairs, straight to his bedrooainst his unorthodox bed and started stripping me "You just tortured ravelly "Now it’s my turn"

TRISTAN