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He chuckled "Better than h before It was such a welco you need can be found under the sink, too I’ll be around"

"Thank you"

"Anyti on the inside of his cheek and nodded once before closing hio put Emma to bed to keepdown the hallway toward the bathroo in front of the bathrooiven hi, wet hair that he tossed into a ht a razorblade to his upper lip, ?"

He stopped his lanced my way once before he made his mustache cease to exist He then trimmed his beard to the point that it was al at a man who looked so different than hter

He broke his stare away fro his now nude face in the mirror "I didn’t want to look like a serial killer, or worse--Hitler"

My stomach dropped "You overheard Tanner"

He didn’t reply

"You didn’t look like Hitler," I said softly,at his every hts, I kept speaking "His comment didn’t even really er under my nose--"little mustache and you had the"--I moved my hands all around …I don’t know…protective ofto say those things And out of line"

His face was stone as his gaze searched mine He had such solid bone structure that made it almost impossible to look away from him Tristan lifted the shirt from the countertop and slid it over his body before he walked past ain," he said

"Again, anyti his clothes?"

"Yes But at the sa you, because it would kind of be like hugging him"

"That’s weird" He smiled, playfully

"I’m weird"

I didn’t expect it, but when his arms wrapped aroundwas how far away fro about the way he softly ently rested his chin on ht me a level of peace I hadn’t seen in sohter, because I wasn’t ready to release the feeling of not being alone Within those fewme how lonely I was Within those few quiet

I hadn’t even noticed I was crying until I felt his thu the tears away We were closer together,me closer to his body When his lips separated, ainst one another As his eyes closed, ether I wasn’t certain whose lips touched whose first, but we kept the our s, holding each other up fro into our own obscurity

Tristan breathed in while I breathed out