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"Wait! When will you get to Condor Peak?"

"Day after toet there"

"I pro" She sounds sad Or disappointed? "And Ielse, because the pay phone finally realizes I’ up and layokay?" Lennon says in a low voice near my shoulder

"I think so Hope so"

"What did you decide?"

I turn around and absently scratchhs Twice On a third sigh, his hand tentatively reaches toward the side of ently pushes an errant curl out of lad"

"You are?"

"I a us a hotel rooroan softly, a little embarrassed

"Too soon?" he says with the hint of a smile

I shake my head and smile back

His hand drops from my hair, and a ain, atte to move the focus away from the heavy topic of us "I’m worried that I should have told Mom about the lady you saw last year at the hotel with my father And about the photo book I just couldn’t"

"It’s probably for the best Sos you just don’t want to say over the phone, believe et a hotel room because I have no clue about how to have a relationship, and, oh yeah, I punched your father, and we’re not allowed to see each other You know, things like that"

I chuckle a little

"I still don’t," he whispers

"Don’t what?" I whisper back

"Kno to have a relationship"

"Oh good, because I don’t either"

"We’ll figure it out eventually If you want to, that is"

"I think so," I whisper

His s sharply through his nostrils, he sounds content And that

He clears his throat "SoI rented us a ca up a small, perforated card with a number printed on it "Not a presu, I needed a place to sleep tonight, and I really didn’t--"

"Calm down I believe you"

"Okay," he says, and we both sain

Focus, Zorie "Ca in the wild?"