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"Well" I nodded "You were right"

He arched an eyebrow "I was About what?"

"Maybe it is time to move on and try to be a family"

He smiled "I’m so happy to hear you say that" He pushed off the wall and advanced on me "I’ve only ever wanted us to be friends We were once, reo any farther "Yeah Before that night"

He flattened a hand against the wall, near " He shook his head "It was so stupid of me"

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He flattened a hand to his cheek "What the hell--"

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He snatched hold of et it now You caht?" He sneered "You spread all those lies about o and now you--"

"They weren’t lies," I reer free "You know it happened"

His upper lip curled over his teeth "What happened was that you couldn’t leaveinside me burned to lash out To remind him that I had been fifteen years old If he hadn’t been so drunk, if I hadn’t run out of the rooht would have ended very differently

"Yeah You kept throwing yourself at ether"

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"And you’re still just a cocktease" He looked ht the dress tasteful before Classy But the way he looked at er dipping inside to brush the top of my brsts "Or hs plenty these days" He shook his head and ue "I fantasized about popping your cherry"

"Go to hell" I slapped his hand away froirl anyirl anyain "Maybe I’ll march in there and tell Melanie--"