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Ouch I thought I had gotten that one past her with all the drinking last night "Hey, you wanted o to a party with you I went Just because I spent part of the night hanging out with Jackson doesn’t ood time I did The party was a little too much for me"

"You can totally over cure for ot you covered Let s from the store, and I ake you back up as soon as it’s ready Get soood day with a hangover," I said as I walked towards the door, snagging my keys off the dresser on my way

"Love you, Lex," I heard Aubreyspot forstripe My dad surprised me with it on my sixteenth birthday The car seeirly, but nobody knew the inside story We used to do ht at least once a week, usually action movies since my dad couldn’t stomach chick flicks One of our favorites was The Italian Job, and I loved the part where they modified the Mini Coopers for a robbery We ether, and I always giggled at the thought of those tiny cars hauling gold bars away at top speeds Nohenever I drive rocery store was packed for a Saturday s, but it looked like this wasn’t going to be quick I really hated shopping, even at the grocery store It was just my luck that it would be so busy And here I was, in ht At least I didn’t have to worry about i up in a college town is that all us townies knew each other pretty well Everyone had seena lot worse than this at least once in rabbed a basket off the stack by the carts and darted towards the produce section to grab some bananas, strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries for the sover cure was pretty simple, but they seemed to onders He always said that the almonds helped settle your sto the liver Throw in a banana for extra potassiuo I had made my fair share for hihts for his friends He needed to be bright-eyed the rabbed the fruit and almonds I needed, I headed over to the spices aisle to pick up some vanilla extract and cinnamon I wasn’t sure what all was stocked in the kitchen on our floor, so I needed to buy solanced into redients so I could esture and a chance to try to connect with therunted as I walked into soize I lifted aze from my basket to the person I had knocked into and realized it was the guy froht before And then I quickly discovered that he was even hotter close up It sure didn’t hurt that he was dressed in pressed khakis and another polo shirt--dark green this time And here I was, dressed like a homeless person

He had turned towards ht and his hands wrapped around my arms to help steady me His dark brown eyes twinkled at y He srin that showed off the di the aisle while I figured out which way to go to find greeting cards," he said

"Oh, you can find those across the aisle a fes that way," I offered while pointing in the direction of the card aisle His hands felt like they were burning through ripped my arms I stared at his full lips as I spoke It was so hard to pullfor a kiss

"Thanks I know this sounds like a bad pick-up line, but don’t I know you from somewhere? I’m Drake Bennett," he asked

"What? Uht I think you know Jackson? He’s--" I started to respond, stopping when his hands dropped from my arms abruptly and his eyes lost the waro What the hell was up with that? He and Jackson had looked friendly enough last night

"Right I rerab that card See you around," Drake offered as he walked away Well, so rocery store Funny, right? Like he would ever even flirt back He ay out oflike I did today, I was surprised he even spoke to me at all I could be such an idiot sometimes