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"I hope you didn’t have to try too hard or have a reason to want me out of your head"

"No, I really didn’t," he responded

"Jackson, what’s wrong?" I asked, a little worried by how serious he seemed

"I orried about you"

"You were?" I was surprised by his response Sure, we hadn’t seen each other since thishad see

"Yeah I didn’t realize the girls were going to drop by the bar tonight"

"I didn’t either, but I’d suggested it to your sister a while back because I thought she and Char would really hit it off," I explained

"It was nice of you to invite Aubrey out, but I wasn’t sure how you’d feel about Lex tagging along with her tonight"

And there it was--time for a difficult conversation I pulled away from him and moved across the cab of the truck to my seat

"Yeah, that was a shocker to me, too And I can’t say it was a nice one at first because it was pretty aard forthis here in the parking lot?"

Jackson heaved a deep sigh and nodded his head "Of course we can"

We were both silent during the drive back to caot there and parked on the street He hopped out and ca to freak out a little because he still had the same worried look on his face I reached for his hand to squeeze it, needing a little reassurance as we entered the house and went straight up to his room