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“Just take it one day at a ti back and forth over the seam of my sweats “It’ll be fine”

“At least I’ve got you withback a sether that they won’t be taking bets on when ht”

“Puhlease,” he said, et into a fistfight”

“Hey!” I said, swatting at him

“What? Have you ever met a sweeter person? She’s the least confrontational person I know”

“To you,The idea of getting into a physical fight withabducted by aliens “Still, they’ll be waiting for some sort of dra with me, I mean”

“I think they ht surprise you,” he mused “They’re dysfunctional as fuck, but when soons”

I sighed “I know I just never wanted them to do that for me”

“They already have,” he pointed out, glancing at me “They didn’t cut me out back when I bailed on you, but not one person set ht on you and Leo They let me believe it”

“I think they believed it,” I confessed, watching him drive “At least for a while They just assumed, and we didn’t correct theuments and shit I used Leo as a shield to keep people fro with me”

Soh forin it for him at that point I’d already completely screwed him over He should have hated me A familiar memory hit h

“You’re being surprisingly cool about this,” I said, failing to keep the surprise out of my voice

“I look like the jealous type?” Leo asked If I was being honest, yeah Yeah, he did When the right wo that Leo would be jealous and possessive as hell He just wasn’t that ith me

Leo hadn’t held a grudge when I’d started screwing around with Mark and inevitably left him behind, and I’d never really understood it until years later, when I’d seen him with my little sister Me and Leo just hadn’t fit, and we’d both known it Ironically, he’d fit with my baby sister—as my complete opposite

I started to stretch to look over the back of the seat again, but Mark held

“Stay put, yeah?” he said, glancing in his rearview mirror

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