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“She coulda picked a better way to show everyone she’s doneoff my socks “She took it too fuckin’ far”

“Pudding in your boots is nothin’,” he replied in surprise “Have you even checked your bike yet?”

“Sonofabitch,” I yelled, running as best I could toward the row of bikes parked along the building I must have looked like a co into the soles of my feet

I ignored Will’s laughter as I checkedor taken anything out of s I knew she wouldn’t have et soa, I found an envelope that I hadn’t put there and pulled it out

You needed new ones anyas scrawled across the front Inside was a gift certificate worth a grip to the shop where ht our leathers and had them repaired

“Well, shit,” Iinstantly

“Seriously, Dad,” Kara asked loves off the shelf “What the heck are we buying all of this for?”

“Soht fire with fire,” I replied distractedly

“Okay, now you really need to clarify,” she said, skipping to catch up with me as I headed to the front of the store

“Don’t worry about it”

She scoffed

I had no idea how to give Rose back the gift certificate she’d left on my bike She and I had never been close, but even I knew that she was crazy stubborn Probleht—it was tiotten around to buying any because it took a long ass time to wear them in to the point that they were actually coe

Right noas on a different e the fact that she’d put pudding in my boots Luckily, I’d had a pair of flip flops at the club for when I took Kara swi, so I hadn’t had to ride ho deal to me, but I’d had to listen to Kara bitch for the last thirty minutes about how I didn’t let her wear open toed shoes on the bike That thirtyhad ce for Rose

Plain and simple, she shouldn’t have escalated shit I wasn’t one of her brothers that tucked his tail between his legs when she got a little crazy for fear that the next prank would be far worse Fuck that I could take anything she threw at ht back

Which hy store, instead of at ho all day

“Can I get a candy bar?” Kara asked, bouncing on her toes “I’”

I looked at rin The braids she’d put in her hair that led mess, and she had a streak of dirt on her neck fro she really was Twelve seeer shit So, she, but by the time I’d picked her up, she was covered in dirt and had proudly showed off a long scratch on her knee that she’d got riding bikes with the kids

“Sure,” I said, laughing as she did a little dance “Grab me one, too”

I watched the clock as we headed home It was still a few hours before Rose left for work, so we had soht, but there was a pretty good chance I’d noticed that she worked a lot Unless there was so on at the club or her fa drinks soular jobs and another where she picked up shifts when someone called in sick

After a whole lot of gru, Kara went up to shower off the day’s sweat and sunblock while I put dinner on the grill God, I loved suht hours, we still always had at least a few hours of light e got ho fun Plus, it was nice to grill when it wasn’t raining—not like a little rain had ever stopped me