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“Since when do you wait onout to ruffle rab so”

He walked toward the kitchen, nodding when Curtis called out for a beer

“He didn’t ask, but I told him she wouldn’t be here,” Curtis said quietly as I sat down on the couch

“She’s staying with Mack and Rose tonight,” I replied, equally as quiet

Curtis huffed

“They’ll figure it out,” I said, turning as Draco cauessed beer”

“I haven’t had orange soda in a long ass tirin as he tossed Curtis his beer “Sounded good”

“Probably a good choice,” I said as he sat down beside onna be so over”

“You needchair froainst the wall

“You don’t have enough beer in there to give a over,” Draco replied

“I don’t drink“Those are the kind Curt likes”

“Kara doesn’t, either?” Draco asked

And just like that, I was in the middle of a minefield, unable to move

“Kara doesn’t do anything,” Curtis replied for me, his voice devoid of emotion

“What does that mean?” Draco asked

“She’s boring,” I said, shooting Curtis a look

Draco looked back and forth between the two of us

“Why are the two of you actin’ so weird?”

“I’ I’d been waiting so long to have hi The plates we’d found at a garage sale that had the ugliest ducks I’d ever seen on theuy in a speedo, the only anato about it the darker colored nipples that Kara and I had laughed about for weeks, the car I’d gotten for graduation that had s detailed once a month