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I kiss her onemy thumbs brush across her cheeks while her lips quiver underon her desk, so I pick it up and program my number in with her contacts and then hand it to her so she sees

"I want you to texther knuckles before I back out of her rooured out?" Ty says when I walk in, his back to h a yellow legal pad full of notes

"Yeah, I’onna hit the showers I’ll be back in a few," I say, grabbing ht she slept in my arms

I pause at the division in the hallway, and I look at the door to her roo underneath I hope she’ll sleep tonight, but if she doesn’t, I hope it’s not because of regret I walk quietly down the hall--careful not tomy shirt on her doorknob Then I step away silently until I’h, and make my way to the showers

After thirty minutes of cold water, I finally feel calmed down I shut the water off, dry o back to my room When I pass her hall, I pause, just to see, and the shirt is gone

Chapter 17

Rowe

Nate was right By the third play through, I had all of the wordsnext totakeoff and followed along with the ba ba ba part in the h, and before I knew it, ere soaring above the clouds

I wouldn’t say I like flying But I think as long as ed, I should be able to survive my trip back to school However, I would prefer to fly non-stop this tiht, but I had to sit at a gate in Denver for about two hours

Coone for a month, but I feel like so much is different Maybe it’s me My mom did wait up for me, and we all sat at the kitchen table and ate slices of an apple pie she bought at Kraft’s Market

Sleeping in e, too Before I left for McConnell, I didn’t think I would ever be able to find coer as a roommate But I did And now I think I slept better with Cass snoring a few feet away from me than I did here behind ht I stayed with Nate I wore his shirt to bed last night I sent him a short text because it was late when I landed, but I think he had been waiting, because he wrote back right away, and said he’d talk to

I sent a text to Cass, too She toldback, not because she wouldn’ta full weekend of sleepovers with Ty I wanted more sleepovers too, and was a little envious that I wasn’t there to take advantage of Nate being alone in his rooe spills down the hall and hasout of bed early I wheelit at the laundry roo someone will notice When I enter the kitchen, ht laundry home for me," he says

"You’re just so much better at it than I aes

"Yeah, yeah That’s what your mother says, too I think you two are in cahoots on this whole plot to domesticate me"

"Honey, you came domesticated That’s why I married you," s into her breakfast "Mmmmm, hey What’s this?" My mom pulls at the sleeve of Nate’s shirt, and I can feel my face redden immediately I’

"Baseball shirt," I say, quickly stuffing my face with another bite I can tell by the way my mother’s eyebrow is cocked that she’s suspicious, and she waits until my dad’s back is turned to drill me a little more

"It looks like a boy’s baseball shirt," she whispers I s ets me, the eye contact I think it’s one of those skills fro a professor

"Hmmmmm, we’ll talk about this more later," she says, and I hope like hell on’t