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"Okay, fine," she whispered and I felt like I had just won another mini-battle "When’s your next root canal?"

"In a couple of days"

"Do you need"

"Nah, I’ood" I was teain I loved being around her even if I wasn’t exactly sure what the hell ere doing "Check in with you after, though?"

"Absolutely"

We stepped up to the counter to place our orders "I’ll have a pineapple coconut andJessie?"

She gaveher order for a medium strawberry banana

As we moved down the line I said, "What was that look for?"

"You just ordered a smoothie with the two flavors I hate most in the entire universe"

"Are you kidding me? You’ve never had one of those fancy beach drinks, like a piña colada?"

"Gross" She scrunched up her nose "Just the thought of those flavors "

I shook rabbed our drinks Jessie continued to surpriseatdisplay of swishing it around my mouth and then leaned toward her lips "So you wouldn’t want aze shifted between ing flash in her irises "Guess you’ll have to keep your distance"

I cracked a grin and bent even closer She pued breath "Are you averse to the suess it’s more the taste and not the s a plastic utensil in her cup "Is that why you’re eating your sh a straw, like a norer this way," she said and then shoved a heaping serving toward my mouth "Try it, you’ll see"

As I sed the frozen concoction, she stared at e to yank her mouth toward mine and saed "But now you’ve got erhed "C’et to Raw Ink"

My phone rang just as I got home fro intomy feet on the coffee table