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Little does she fucking knoe’re outside because I think she’s pretty and it’s too hard to talk inside with all the noise

"So you keep saying" I shoot her a cursory glance, eyes on her th puffy coat Knit winter hat Mittens "No offense--you don’t really look like you came dressed for a party"

She rips open a pack of fruit snacks, package crinkling, popping a red one in her mouth "I’m also a realist, Rowdy I didn’t want to freeze my ass off if the ansas no bueno"

Silently, we chew in tandeainst the house, eyes sliding closed when she ss her first bite "I love these stupid things They’re so bad for you"

In goes an orange one

"Never have I ever taken food out of a trash can and eaten it," I announce, taking a chug out of ht now! You have not!"

"I have," I boast proudly "I was starving and I ith a few buddies, and alking past a really nice restaurant Technically alking in an alley past their duross--your mouth has been in the trash What the hell did you eat?"

"Pasta with " I chuckle "We were in the city and it had just been thrown out, so I figured it was clean"

"Rowdy, that’s disgusting!" When she leans forward and taps id, calf burning where she poked at it with the tips of her fingers

"It was still warm! Clearly, I didn’t die from it, so how bad could it have been?" I protest "Plus, it had just the right aers, sprinkling ihetti

Scarlett plays footsies withKnock it off"

Our loud laughter carries into the yard, causing the few people gathered by the road to glance up at the house

I chomp down the last of the oatmeal bar and rip open the second one Chew "Okay brainiac" S "Here’s one for you--never have I ever cheated on a test"

Her pert nose wrinkles "Why would you assuirl in class ants extra credit"

"You would latch onto that fact--but the truth is, I always needed extra credit because rades were just okay, not because I loved the extra work Let’s get real here"

"Really?"

"Really And for your information, yes--I’ve cheated on a test" She takes a drink froh school and it was a take-hoet help, but during study hall a few of us worked on it together and I got busted" She pops a fruit snack in her mouth "God I am so bad at math"

"I’ve never cheated on a test, unless you count the road test to get my driver’s license"

"How can you cheat on the road test?"

"By flirting with the exaht, beneath the winter cap, her eyes widen "Guy or girl?"

"Guy" I grin shah escapes et out of a speeding ticket?"

"No"

Now she’s the one srin widens "I was hoot pulled over conized the cop as souy a few years older who had just becoht have unbuttonedthe plates"

"No fucking way"

"Way Thole buttons" She laughs "So e"

"Why Scarlett, you little…"

"I really think it’s weird you think I’ument with your teammates"

"Honestly, I’ They’re roan is acco that sweater when I get home"

"Yeah?"