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This was so confusing Soht and I opened my mouth to tell hi od There’s not I meant to tell her that, but she ran off I don’t know if she could sense what I was going to tell her and didn’t want to hear it or what I have no idea" Okay I started to say soain, but Mason touched my arm "Hold on Let me tell you all of it"

There wasme warily as he said, "She’s in one of my classes"

What?!

"I’ve never once talked to her in there She sits with her friends I sit with mine There’s been no interaction at all Then," he hesitated, raking his gaze over uys and I went to a birthday thing for Matteo Nate and his fraternity came in Marissa ith Nate She was his date"

"And she came with hi on with Nate? Why didn’t you tell er jabbed at his chest, poking hier and held it there, pressing oddaht I s are different I’an This year is just…"

"…different" I sighed Things were changing I went to hiainst his chest He was stiff at first, then relaxed as his arhtened his hold, and it wasn’t justwider and wider insidetime We were in a different chapter of our lives

"Sam?" He tilted my head up and peered down at me His thumb brushed a tear fros were changing "You’re my anchor and you’re not there and she’s here and I didn’t hear about it until today It doesn’t sit well It doesn’t ood"

A swift curse left him and he rested his forehead on mine His thumb rested on my cheek "I am so sorry I mean it"

I believed him "Yeah" But it didn’taround,the tail end of Logan as he left the room Once the door was shut, he said from the other side, "Sa Your dad called "

Mason asked uess, Garrett"

"We haven’t talked about him yet"

"I know" I stepped back, and as soon as his hands left me, I missed his touch