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Like I saidcontradiction

But this? This guy who had just stepped up to hisdown at herI’d never seen hihed whenever soer and immediately looked intier was absolutely terrifying And yet hisher that the sky was lare deepening as they stared each other down, and soon hisShe was dancing to her car Definitely acting like nothing had just happened, and like she wasn’t affected by or worried about the way Jagger had just treated her Once her car pulled away, Jagger glanced atat his lips as he watched me for a few seconds before he ot in the front

As soon as he dropped off the truck at the rental place and took over the driver’s side of his car, he began talking about Charlie and a trip she was taking this su on to the subject of what I planned to do in Thatch, and how long I wanted to stay at my parents’ house There was never a lull in the conversation until he was dropping et," hethe car key out of the ignition "For you"

I took the key fro as I asked, "Warehouse?"

Jagger er, and I had all had keys to each other’s houses since we could drive; it had otten our own aparted keysby then it had been expected Noasn’t any different

"Try to have fun with your brother tonight, but if it gets too hard or you need anything, call et out of the car, but stopped Despite how he’d been one in that direction, I had to ask "What’s going on with your mom?"

His face tightened in well-practiced confusion "What do you mean?"

"Don’t do that," I whispered "Don’t act like you have no idea what I’ about" He continued to watch e sadness filledyour mom Then you wouldn’t talk to her when I was able to hear you" I shook"We tell each other everything, we’ve always told each other everything Then today I find out about the warehouse, and you’re treating your ure out what else I don’t know, Jag When did all of this change between us?"

The expression slipped, and those green eyes bounced around as he took in ed I wanted to surprise you with the warehouse, that’s why I didn’t want you to helpto show you once I had it all set up As for my ht now, Grey There’s nothing going on that you need to know about, I prouy who always calledshe was getting ht my eyes with his "I haven’t heard froraduation, didn’t tell , and then she showed up today because she found out from Charlie that I’d remodeled the warehouse I told Charlie that you and I were back in town, she told Mo to do with her, she suddenly wants to see er"

"Yeah," he said on a laugh Looking away, he took a deep breath before looking at uess I was just ize to her later"

I studied his expression for a few seconds before nodding I still didn’t believe hi, and physically and e his reaction out to be more than it was "Okay"

"Have fun with Grahaht, I’ll see you toreen eyes flashed up tohint, but there was no ger

May 22, 2014

"SOUNDS LIKE YOU’RE gonna have fun, Charlie I’ around here for the summer with Mom"

I turned when she didn’t respond, and watched as Charlie played with the tab on her can of soda My brows pinched together at the sudden and weird silence inon and on about thetrip she and a few of her friends were taking in a feeeks across the country, and now she wouldn’t even look at me

"Hey" I rested my forearms on the counter and waited until she looked up at "

"Bullshit Is it Mo?" I tried to reive too much away, but when it caet a feel for what Mo, then I wasn’t ready for Charlie to know all about her yet