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Mason and Ryder come back to the room and I move over so Ryder can have theRyder settled with his bottle I’ to do if he keeps hurting me

Mason reaches for my hand above Ryder’s head and then he lays his hand on my hip "I love you Hailey Madison Taylor"

I close my eyes and a tear slides down my face "I love you too, Mason Jonathan Cahill"

With my eyes still closed I fall to sleep withthis with Mason

After Ryder finishes his bottle I carry him back into his roooes off at five and I’ three hours I look over at Hailey’s sleeping body and I never want to be separated froain She’s the one for ht sealed the deal Hailey is the type of girl that will put everyone else before herself, make sure everyone is happy before she h so much shit with her fa to ain

I regrettably untangle o to wake Cooper for practice

When I walk downstairs Cooper and Jaylinn are already sitting at the breakfast bar, drinking coffee

"So Masey, you and Hailey?" Jaylinn questions ht now

Cooper stands up and goes for another cup of coffee "You fked her in our sister’s house, in the kitchen dude, and all you can do is shrug?"

I walk by and s to say a word about it to Kenzie either"

"Hell no I’ far away from that" Cooper says

The three of us talk for a little while before Coop and I leave the girls and Ryder to head off to practice

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I wake around ten and I feel the panic quickly Mason is gone, I can’t feel his body heat, but he never woke me to make sure I kept an ear out for Ryder I throw the covers off and run into his roo with Ryder’s blocks as he is sitting in her lap, attes are plastic

"Morning Sunshine" Jaylinn greets me

"Damn, I was in a panic for a ht Ryder would be in here screa his head off" I take a seat next to Jaylinn and Ryder on the floor and pick up a block, twirling it around in rab his little hand, "Morning ri burn" I start laughing "It’s not what you think, jackass"

I rollaround I tried to get away froed h harder, "Didn’t you have pants on?"

"Oh whatever" Jaylinn huffs and blows her bangs out of her eyes "You’re iether? Everyone knows you two are fighting your feelings for some reason and it makes no damn sense, Jay"

"It’s complicated"

"What isn’t coet close to his are weird for a few days afterwards" Jaylinn shrugs and looks hurt