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"Yeah, you are We’ve been together day in and day out for over aback is what you do With people at school, your fa what you feel when you’re with me"

"Feel with you? Me and you--we are friends"

"We crossed beyond friends the night we spent in your room and you know that Fuck, Haley, there isn’t a moment that we haven’t been into each other and I’m not the only one in the room aware of it"

Haley shakes her head and waves a hand in the air "Keep your ym"

"Hey, you’re the one who kissed e puff of air leaves heryou For helpingon to you"

I ease closer to her "You want me Adht we ht now, but you’ve buried it deep It popped out today when you least expected it and now you’re oes blank, and, like the tioes into the frozen shock I’ that crosses their s that should be self-censored, but Haley keeps every thought locked away and maybe she doesn’t do it on purpose Maybe that’s her way of keeping up her guard

I glance down at the gloves on my hand "I step when I punch"

Haley’s dark eyes ju in thes me to my knees "No, you don’t"

"And I throw more jabs than crosses"

A smile starts to play on her lips "That definitely never happens"

"And I a on the defensive and offensive"

Like I knew she would, Haley laughs loudly The spark that has returned to her eyes is nearly impossible to resist

"If I throw a jab" I lift les as she absently blocks Instantaneously, I step and "toss" a cross at her and she takes a ain

"The boy can be taught," she says through another laugh