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“You knohat IOld Stuffy”

“What the fuck are you even talking about?” Charlie asked me in disbelief “She wore a bandana to the Memorial Day barbeque As a shirt”

I giggled “That was just to piss off my dad”

“Well, it worked,” Charlie said with a tilt of her head I nodded It had definitely worked I’d been able to hear their arguh I’d closed my bedroom door and covered my ears with headphones I couldn’t even remember what it was about anymore—by the next day they’d made up They always did

“She’s just more, you know, mom-ish now I don’t kno to explain it”

“Just don’t try to wear a G-string to proet you whatever,” Charlie said “Jesus, why are we still talking about this? Who gives a flying fuck about prom?”

“Uh, I do?”

“I don’t,” she replied “I’m bored with this conversation”

“Fine,” I huffed

“Did you see Ali Monroe today?” Charlie asked with a sigh

“It’s Ali now?” I asked in surprise “I thought you were into the new kid What’s his name?”

“Liam,” Charlie said “Yeah He’s yum”

I laughed

“But Ali earing this white lacy shirt today,” Charlie said, a dreaeous tan she has”

“Man,” I said with a groan “I’m kind of jealous that your pool of prospects is twice the size of mine I saw Ali today and all I noticed was the zit on her neck”

“Oh, coe of the sidewalk “Why you have to ruin my daydream like that?”

I laughed, stepping back on the curb “I just like penises,” I said cheerfully, throwing up h no fault of my own”

“You don’t like penises,” Charlie said with a snort “You enjoy the idea of penis, but you’ve never had an actual experience with one”

“I have, too!”

“Fu in the dark over a pair of jeans on the back of a bus doesn’t count,” she said, raising an eyebrow

“Why are we even friends?” I asked jokingly “And why do I tell you anything?”

“Because I get you,” she said, sliding her arm around my waist

Gru, I threw my arm over her shoulder so we could synchronize our steps Charlie was the tougher of the two of us, the cynic and the first one to speak up if she saw soree with, which was kind of funny since she was so much smaller than y and efficient movement, I was tall-ish and curvy and I’d rather laze around watchingbother her and every little slight hurt h, we fit

“If we’re doing this thing,” Charlie said, giving me a squeeze, “then I have some demands”