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Noas natural for him to be up there He didn’t look at me anymore unless I stopped in an obvious spot He was all charer the ers He scanned the crowd in front of him, and whether he liked to adirl, and they lost the My jaw dropped when a pair of girls took out their cell phones and began recording hie? I wanted to ask, but Melanie had banned roupies" as she called the bodily harm, which was absurd I wouldn’t hurt anyone… too end around here, and the second he started on the girls, that legend status was going to explode

Melanie showed up and sidled up next tothe band

"He called me a friend," I told her quietly

"You need to nantly

"That’s not who I am That’s toxic"

"Toxic or not, you have to force his hand Do you want to be friend-zoned your whole life?"

"After everything we’ve been through, is that e really are?"

"If he’s telling people you’re his friend, then yeah, Leah, it is"

Fuck

We returned to work after that I was collecting e just behind hter drew me in, and to distract etto tell my mother to fuck off forever, I swear, babe," the irl "If she doesn’t accept you, then she’s not welcome in our lives You’re my whole world now"

I smiled a little and turned my head to look at the hands, chatting with smiles on their faces Completely open and honest about what they were to the world Judging by her happiness, she didn’t have to skirt around herat her like a love-struck puppy, ready and willing to give her the world

I felt soht surprised by how jealous I was of the even my heartrate as I stared on

Jealousy It was a poisonous feeling, and it was capable of consu in denial, thinking that green-eyed-monster could be avoided, but like a shadow it followed me around, until I had no power left to push it away

I felt emotional More than usual Reality seeh ht about it, thewith Carter the ere wasn’t healthy That it was consuhts My e the way I’d lost a part of who I was

I didn’t even knohere to start in claie epiphany rocked e where Carter was He was looking back at me with uncertain eyes, and I swear he knew

He knew exactly what I was thinking