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“And the music?”

She tilts her head “Why all the questions, Saul?” she asks

Every tieouswhirl insidenow that I never would’ve used before

So

My cock pulses, a second heartbeat when she’s around, her legs crearab

“How about this?” I say “You answer et to ask one of your own?”

She pouts,Her cuteness is killingmy self-control

“Okay, you’ve got a deal”

“So, why the music?”

“Because I like it,” she says

“Copout,” I groan then grin “Of course you like it, Sparkplug Otherwise, you wouldn’t be listening to it But why?”

An eerie look coe I find that we’ve closed the distance to each other without really choosing to or realizing it

We’re inches apart, somehow

Staring into each other and I think we both know, deep dohere this has to go I think we knoas decided the moment I laid eyes on her

Was that really only yesterday?

“Do you want the truth?”

“From you? Always, Sadie”

I reach down and I take her hand I just take her hand without asking, without us ever having held hands before, and soe that it’s okay

There’s no aardness

Sparks fire, sizzling sensation a thousand tier than I’ve ever felt before, than I ever drea her

I flip ers with hers

How is this happening? Why aren’t we more shocked by each other?

“It was the albuot the phone call that … that my parents had been in a car crash,” she whispers “And sometimes – I don’t knohy – but sometimes I just listen to it on repeat Over and over Because—”

“What?” I urge

“I can’t,” she hts “Another time, maybe, if you’re still interested”

I give her hand a squeeze, the feeling thruth