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"Aht?" Lia of anyone other than hiust"

"Huh" Chubs held up one of his broken lenses and peered through it like aVida’s snicker "Kids actually inia?"

We did, I almost said But our circumstances had beendifferent, to say the least

"I bet" He tookto the corner where the house’s fencelot Down the street on the opposite corner was some kind of church Painted there in bold, black strokes were two inverted Vs, one on top of the other like arrows, surrounded by a circle "That’s a directional marker to show the those since we left Los Angeles I had no idea--I just assu to do with road construction"

"What’s funny is that I reh--" He hesitated "Through Harrisonburg?"

I looked up at hih, and the question in his tone registered like the sharp ache of a repeat injury

"We did drive through theretogether, I , am I?"

What killed me, almost more than the frustrated expression on his face, was that there was no accusation in his voice I knew that what I had done to his uess But he still had moments of overlap bethat had really happened, and the story I had planted in hisChubs for clarification a few times, but this was the first time I’d ever been so directly confronted with it My whole chest ached If I’d had the option ofmyself be carried down into the storet out "You’ve got it right We drove through on the way to that Wal-Mart"

I started to turn back to the ht my wrist I braced myself for whatever he was about to say

Which, apparently, was nothing He looked down, his thu the soft skin on the inside of my wrist

Finally, Liam said, "I remember the other motel--it looked almost exactly like this one, but the doors weren’t red" He rubbed the back of his neck, a rueful grin on his face "I acted like an idiot trying to give you a pair of socks"

In spite ofht -and-dance routine if you hadn’t started laughing," he said "That’s how badly I wanted you to smile"

My heart hurt in a co a soft kiss onto his cheek There was a sharp whistle fro lot Cole waved us back over from where he stood next to a coht of it, but started toward the driver’s side Cole shook his head and pointed to Vida

"She’s driving" He cut Liaet a word in "No attitude Your shoulder needs to rest Trade off later"