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I hear hilad you’re doing so well," she says, and sives her a chaste kiss on the cheek
The mood seems to ease a little after this Even Harlow allows herself a tiny smile at him as everyone shifts over to make room on the blanket, with the enored beside Lola, and of course it ends up that I take ot
My heart is incataloged and analyzed A too fa it now?
The food is passed around and Margot and the girls jump into easy conversation while Luke and I keep our eyes pinned on the picnic blanket
When I finally have my nerves under control and look up, Lola catches my eye and smiles a little in reassurance In her expression, I read the You two are adorable look there And she’s right: he is fucking adorable It surprises me how happy I am to see him, but also how much it suddenly sucks that I can’t really enjoy it without pissing off someone really important to me For her part, Harlow doesn’t see at us
"So let ot blinks from Luke to me as she unwraps a sandwich "London said she had to work so she didn’t have to hang out with you?" She is clearly delighted
One side of Luke’s mouth turns up as he slides his eyes to me "Apparently"
It is obvious to ot or Luke that this would be at all weird, and it makes me like theot says,to her knees to pull her phone from her back pocket "Just let" ‘The daythe tables were turnedon irl made up a work storyso she didn’t have to spend time with hi it, and sroup text," he tells her "Wouldn’t want to leave Mom and Grams out of the loop"
She turns her phone to face hiood-naturedly and takes a bite out of his sandwich "I’lance over at Mia and see she’s grinning ear to ear "At least this tiot about that Ho!" Harlow says
"You think I was asha closer to me So close that our arso to Mia and all her friends: that is our history This is my now
My heart trips over itself, but falls don inside aze onher stern attention "Okay, what happened at Ho, and the sound diffuses the tiny slip of tension that--thankfully--Luke and Margot have yet to notice "So it’s halftiive exactly zero shits about good behavior at this point Everyone’s up in the stands waiting for the drill tea lance at Luke, and realize I’ve been unconsciously leaning just a tiny bit into him He smells clean, and warm I smell his soap, and reh along his cheekbones, visible even beneath his tan He looks like he’s barely keeping hiot nods "The local newspaper was there--about two thousand parents with zoo penis--canized his butt from the photos Graet the last word out before she falls over, giggling
"Oh ?"
"Look," Luke says, gesturing down the length of his body "Sometimes you just can’t keep the beast contained, okay?"
There’s a collective groan and now everyone has co so hard she looks like she can barely breathe "He had to do community service at the senior center and spent the su his butt pinched by old ladies who’d already seen it in the newspaper"