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"It would seelance at Steven, "that you’re still part of the Cartwright fa Cooper back "What do you ?"

"Because you’re so obviously with Cooper now, you dumb slut," Tom says "Duda, in the cafeteria, calls the students herto notice? You can try to pretend you two are just friends, but--"

"Your eyes do kind of light up when you mention him," Steven says, "and it’s obvious from the way he looks at you that he’s in love with you"

"Is it?" I ask, delighted in spite of the fact that ere trying to keep our relationship a secret and I already know Cooper is in love with me since he’s said so himself, multiple times

"Not to mention you two have been attached at the hip all summer," Tom complains "When we asked you to come see the latest Reese Witherspoon ro--"

"He likes comedies," I say in Cooper’s defense Golden Girls is one of his favorite TV showsalthough in some ways I think he watches it et why you’re keeping it on the do," Tom says, as if I hadn’t spoken "It’d be aard in any circuot to be especially bad in this case, given the Cartwright farown-ups I expect everyone should be able to handle it"

"I don’t know about that," I say, thinking back to the way Jordan had reacted at the Allingtons’ when a relationship between his brother and ood

I still haven’t been able to shake the ie of Tania the last ti so lost and aloneall except for her dog, which she’d been clutching as if it were the only creature in the world she could trust Shouldn’t that have been Jordan? So seems a little off in that relationship

Well, I’ht up in their blissful happiness, they won’t even notice anything else going on around theet euntil, of course, everyone starts asking e’re going to have kids

"Have you told Cooper the news yet?" Steve asks

"About my endometriosis?" I widen my eyes at him "God no" How did Steven even know about that? I haven’t told a soul

Then I realize, even before To to that "I mean--"