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Ian frantically rolled down hisand stuck his head out, gasping like a beached flounder I was soaked Water pooled in the seat of y cluainst his seat

"Addie, hoe fix it?" Ian asked

Mechanic Addie to the rescue I reached up to wiggle the roof, and beads of water tumbled in "Do we care about pretty?" I asked

Rowan tapped his hand on the dashboard "Does it look like we care about pretty?"

"Valid," I said "We need tape Really strong, thick tape"

Rowan nodded vigorously "Tape Got it I’ll just pop in the shop and ask" He grabbed a beanie froas station

"We al his fingers on the dashboard "Can you iine the obituary? Killer car traps trio--"

"Ian" I reached over to still his restless fingers I had a theory that Ian had spent a previous life as a hubird Or an athletic coffee bean "What’s up with Rowan’s mom?"

He glanced back, his eyebrows bent "What are you talking about?"

"Back at the gas station I overheard hi a decision before the end of the summer"

"Really?" Ian tucked a strand of hair into his htfully "I don’t know very much about his family I didn’t even know his parents were divorced until he brought it up back at the Burren"

"Are you serious?" This was soabout ht down to the nas they liked on their pizza Lina claimed to reation My brothers, on the other hand, seemed to need only a few similarities to form a bond You like football and tacos? Me too

Ian followed a bead of rain down the windshield with his finger "Rowan and I don’t talk a lot about stuff like that"

I rolledabout Titletrack?"

"No" He blew his breath out loudly "I mean, of course we talk about music, but s we care about and what’s bugging us Stuff like that"

I couldn’t help but grin "So you’re saying that you and Rowan talk about your feelings?" Once Archie had asked me what Lina and I could possibly have to talk about on our multi-hour phone conversations and I’d finally told hi" Now every time she called, they uess so," Ian adnized immediately Eyes open and vulnerable--it hat I saw before he revealed so about himself "Have you ever wished you could have soood you are at sports or school or being popular, or whatever, they just see you?"