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She shut off the water and rested her cheek on the back ofon and that you’re trying to find whoever did this to me in the first place I just et that I have to share you with the Point”

I lifted a hand to run it over her newly chopped hair It ht be short and a little crazy, but it was still soft and felt like silk where it clung to ers

“You shouldn’t have to”

She laughed and there was no humor in it “In a perfect world, maybe, but so far not the Hill, not the Point, and nowhere in between is perfect We just have to make the best of e have”

I curledin love, Bry?”

She laughed again and pulled away from me “Probably Why wouldn’t we? Life is a ht in the thick of a war on the city What better conditions could you think of to fall in love?”

Definitely the Bonnie to my Clyde I turned to follow her as she walked into the bedroom

“You think we’ll survive it?” I hadn’t ever been in love before, and so far, it was like its own special kind of battle I was trying to win

She sighed at me “I don’t know, but I sure hope so”

I needed to change the subject before one of us let good sense talk us out of as happening between us

“What do you know about Drew Donner?”

She orking on folding down the co-size bed, so she just answered me over her shoulder “We have a bunch of the saether sometimes”

“He never asked you out or anything?”

She stripped out of the black pants she earing, leaving her in nothing but a tank top and a pair of barely-there panties This was serious conversation, but my mind i legs as she clie She still had a little redlot, and the reet my mind back on track as she studied