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"Nah! Not oninto a brush of bra up a cloud of dust

Kaidan and I stood there, staring at the place where our buffer person had disappeared and listening as the bike zoomed farther away Several tense beats passed, both of us looking around the garage

He cleared his throat "We could take a walk," he suggested "If you’d like"

"Sure" We walked back around the house, down the many steps onto the sand until ere at that wonderful place where water met land

"Ack!" I screa!"

He sh outside to offset the cold water, so after a few ether alked in the surf, leaving our footprints in the sand Neither of us spoke We passed ahands Her free hand rested on top of the baby buesture a powerful longing hit ers curl instinctively before we both pulled our arms away Empty

I didn’t knohere to start with hiiant pile of rubble blocking our way

"I heard your band’s first single"

He looked at me with surprise and, if I didn’t know any better, shyness, too His hair shielded part of his eyes when he asked, "Did you?"

"Jay’s interning at a radio station now, so he got his hands on it It’s good Are you having fun doing the recordings and stuff?"

He shrugged "Music used to be et everything"

But it wasn’t anymore? His jaw clamped shut as if he’d said tooat least he had his band and druined

He ran his hands through his hair several times, then shoved them in his swim trunk pockets and let the locks fall around his face as he peered down at the sand We sidestepped a huge cloudy-looking glob

"What is that?" I asked

"Jellyfish"