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The laughter creeps in quickly, and soon I can’t control it, and it infects Rowe; she’s laughing on the other line just as hard "I’h tears, she’s laughing so hard "It’s hideous I’ll go to the hardware store and start repainting so et here, I’ll be alive in, just like they don’t give in I’ve got this"
"Okay, but I’ly," she says, and I s to be awesoe’s help, and I was nervous to ask at first Our relationship was healing, but slowly She see Ty--so I used that in s off
We needed to ti like clockwork froround I called Rowe, and she made plans with the boys for dinner at Sally’s We’d meet theot too crowded The only risk left hether or not they left their roo they do…often
Rowe is juet upstairs, and her ss in the hallway, by our rooe all the keys she needs, and she proe, I proe a free bailout, no questions asked, the next ti that hasn’t happened in a while, now that I think of it Her lips curl at the edges, a faint s this to her was enough
"I can handle this," she says, reaching into her bag for a band to tie her hair She pulls her jacket froantic pumps off so she can work barefoot The scene s in those," she says, blowing her bangs up and out of her eyes It’s funnyOur suspicion is even e guys on the elevator, and as the doors shut, I think I catch a gli her in his arlad she saw that too
"No idea who he is," I say, h the elevator doors as we start our decent "So a secret"
Whoever he is, he isn’t a jock or frat guy…or anyone I’ve seen around any of Paige’s parties He’s way off the radar, and nothing like anyone I’d ever pair with ain
Rowe and I sohout dinner--even pretending to be pissed about the brown room, about how they one-upped us…finally And when e that "the deed is done," I tug roicked
"I almost want to sprint home," she whispers in my ear as ait at the front of Sally’s while Nate and Ty linger by the bar to check the score of a game
"Play it cool," I say, and she folds her aret all ballsy and good at this?" she asks "The student has become the teacher"
"Okay, you and Ty seriously need to stop with the Kung Fu thing," I say, and Ty catches the end of it
"You can never talk tooher fist forward for a pound
"Darasshopper mastered?" His question makes me panic, but only for a second, because Rowe is way better at this than I a her eyebrows, and instantly Ty assu sex It’s easy to take hisof it She didn’t really lie, because he will find out soon He’s just going to be evenback, as if there’s nothing to be excited about I stop at ourthem in my pocket before anyone can notice, and we continue to the elevator
"Mail’s e at Rowe behind their backs