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"I’ll be at the hotel I need to leave tomorroay" Callan stands and looks at nobody but me

He leans over and sets a kiss on ers intothe warh h the apocalypse, I hear Tahoe and Gina’s rough loveuess my brother needs the outlet, because they’ve been at it for a while

I toss around in bed and everything rerab my phone and text him at 12 am

I wanted you to stay

I’d sleep in the tree house with you

You’reout on cramped shoulders and a permanently injured back, boo

My phone rings, and my heart leaps as I see his nah I’ else

"I’up I whisper, "How about we sleep on the hill just past the house?"

"A night sleeping on a hill?"

I bitethe amusement in his voice Please God, don’t let what uy away I say, "Yes With you"

"I’ll be there in twenty"

"I’ll see you there"

I leap out of the bed and take a quick shower, blow-dry my hair, pull it back into a ponytail, and slip into co T-shirts

I leave a note on my pillow just in case Mother peeks into rab a tote bag and go raid the kitchen, adding water bottles, two blankets, then tiptoe out of the house

I walk up to the figure on the hill, his shadowI’d never before felt in ht blankets Two One so the ants don’t get us, another for you and me"

His shoes are next to his wallet and rental car keys and hotel key He’s barefoot Freshly showered, jeans hanging low on his hips, and a T-shirt that looks so soft and inviting, I want to nuzzle myself into his chest

I pull out one of the blankets and he takes it fro mine in the dark before he whips it out and spreads it on the ground

I sit on it and he drops next to me, the weather too warm to use the extra blanket for now

We stare at the hills around us "Itman can create can equate to this"

Callan’s amused half-smile and the twinkle in his eyes appear "Well, it took billions of years to beco"