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"See you soon" I tucked Ehtly all the way down the stairs

"Hoas it?" I asked

"Brutal, like I expected," she adht it would hurt to talk about it, and it did, but it also felt like I was taking so someone what he was really like"

I sed hard and squeezed her arht about it being hard to hear E a lot better than I was We walked outside, and I automatically scanned the road for a taxi There was no way I was letting her get on a bus like this When Em elbowed me, I realized I didn’t need to bother Across the road fro We hurried across the road toherself in Kieran’s ar I knew exactly why they were here Giving Kieran a fist bump and back slap, I spoke quietly to him while Em spoke to Liam

"Thanks, Kier"

"No proble you make your oay home after this I’et you ho?"

"You kno she is On the outside, she’s a brutal"

"Anything we can do?" he asked

"I wish there was, but I’ve got no fucking clue what I’otta be here for her while she processes everything"

"No o a few rounds in the ," I told hiht-faced Anyone else and they’d have told to fuck off, and even though I really was taking the piss, Kier huggedin her sleep in the dead of night, was fucking heartbreaking Last week I cauy who couldn’t find a way to tell his girl that he loved her until he’d nearly lost her I didn’t get it If you love soet your arse up and make her see you’re the only man for her Or kidnap her until she sees sense If you don’t love soht for it, you don’t really love it at all Still E, cup of tea, and a bar of chocolate, and she was all good But this was not good It was so fucking far froin

"No, no, no," she moaned quietly into her pillow Her body was curled up in the fetal position in theface tortured in sleep