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She shyly glances away The tension building between us causesto explain so her to continue "Paint, brushes, water I’et too excited and dip the brush into the paint and the colors get er yellow and you’re no longer blue"

"We becoreen," I finish for her

Haley lifts her head and she’s raw, co "I dated Matt and I sort of becareen I’d like to try yellow again for a while"

Haley needs tiet ure out how to tell her about my family by then

She sucks in air as if she sed too much water and I throw out a life preserver "When will you teach ? You said it would be soon"

Haley blinks and as meant to help her causes her to drop her head back and then forward into her hands "Damn"

"What?"

"Grappling’s out of ue I’ers "I’ to fail you"

Yeah, Haley needs tiive her space I pull on her hands and, when she refuses to look at ers under her chin and force her eyes to lassy and in pain and I don’t want any of that over me "There’s no possible way you can fail h to train meto let me help you with your scholarship You are not capable of failing" That’s ainst her cheek Haley closes her eyes as if she enjoys les to s blue Don’t worry--you’re still yellow"

Her eyes laugh for a brief second and I burn the sight into er-side door, steps out and closes it behind her

I roll down the passenger-side"Haley"

She raises her eyebrows

I leanwheel "You need ti Not sure what it is, but we’re ht it’d be simpler if I made that clear"

With lines bunched around her eyes, she nods once but won’t look at me She turns for the house, takes two steps, then rushes back to the car Haley swings the door open, grabs the roses, then blushes when our eyesme flowers, but just so you know I am so still yellow Okay?"