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I rest an aro andan additional layer of skin "Why so many damn jabs? My cross is more powerful"

"Your jab is yourto throw you off balance"

Maybe because I’m too daetting it She gestures with her head for ers at ainst my forehead "What about the pads?"

I’ve never thrown a punch straight at Haley before and the thought twiststo hit et the point"

My pretend girlfriend is cocky "All right" I widen my stance and "throw" a cross Haley’s arm snaps out and deflects the hit and in a second her cross is frozen at ," she says

I am My body tilted with her deflection Damn

"If my cross struck you, you would have been off balance and I’d have the upper hand All hits are good, West, especially if they connect, but a jab is your bread and butter"

Haley picks up my wrists and shifts theuard up at all tiet the hell pounded out of you"

"I know" I start to lower it, but she keeps a fir I see in the srained, not a useless tidbit of inforers holding on to me, we stay that way, silent, as the music continues to play After a second, she says, "What are you scared of?"

Failing her like I’ve failed Rachel Getting ood after graduation I go to drop my wrists, but Haley keeps the"

"No, you keep uard If you do hold it up, you’re not keeping it tight near your teh the s else"

"Can you see e is exposed by her tank top and small pieces of her hair fall from her ponytail She’s an erotic mess that my hands itch to roam