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I turned to look, but his eyes held the humor his tone didn’t I rolled ainstyou, since I don’t even have your nuuy just needs a study buddy"

"Study buddy?" My voice cracked, and I cleared my throat to cover it I shoved ers and ers off Josh That seemed to be the only way

He leaned in, just inches froh I’m the one who drew the line,tells ether"

My rin stole over his face "What? We would be good at studying together"

I swatted his chest with the backside of ht We’d do a lot of thingswelltogether

Dave Matthews rang out from my back pocket, and I reached for lance at the screen and April’s picture elevated my heart rate She was supposed to be in school

"April? You’re supposed to be in third period by now" God, I sounded like Moet over here Uncle Mike just showed up and there’s a news crew and Motoo fast" I reached into the car and started the ignition to war on?"

"Uncle Mike showed up as I was leaving for school, and then about a half hour ago, a news creed up Mo up and turned to Josh "I have to go, there’sdown at one, immediately replaced with concern Too bad that was al "Do you need me? Help? Do you need help?"

I bit back my instinct to say yes, that I wanted hiuy, not this soon "No, I’d better handle this alone"

His face fell, and he sed quickly with a curt nod "Yeah, okay"

"Thanks for asking, though It means a lot"

I made the drive to the south side of town in twenty minutes, pulled into our subdivision-standard driveway, and threw the car in park Sure enough, solomerate was parked outside our house

I’d called Captain Wilson on the way hoht happen, especially with the incident being Afghan military on A had happened, I’d hoped it wouldn’t Apparently it did