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“You didn’t answer“Did you miss your phone?”

“Wouldn’t you miss yours if it was taken from you for four days?”

“No, I don’t think I would” He shrugged and took the bottle back, frowning down at it “Truth be told, I’d love for so To have some peace and quiet But…”

She stared at him, and for the first ti at hiht back out of his hand and took a healthy s of the a, she pounded her chest and rasped, “But sometimes you just wish you could escape, even for a short time?”

“Yes” He turned to her “Very much so”

“I get that” She broke off their eye contact and looked out the , clutching the bottle so hard her knuckles whitened “I think everyone, at one time or another, wishes that they could run away”

He didn’t say anything to that because froether fro told hiot to feel anonymous”

She took another drink, not even wincing this time, and offered him the bottle At this rate, she’d be sloppy drunk well before they arrived at their destination, and he’d be carrying her over his shoulder, caveman style The idea had some merit

“Because you lied about who you were?” she asked

“No Because I ith you” He lifted a shoulder, taking the bottle and putting the cap back on She stared at his fingers, her lips parted “With you, I was sohtclub, and I feel it now, too You bring out so in me that no one else does I don’t knohy, or what it is, but with you, I can just…bebut that”

Slowly, she ain, her soft blue eyes softer than ever before Her pupils were a little dilated, and her cheeks et to do a lot?” she asked quietly

“No,” he said simply

Shaking her head, she clucked her tongue and lowered her lids “Well, that’s just sad You should be able to be yourself around anyone”

“Guys like uard down unless it’s with so…only one of which I have”

She licked her lips and gripped her knees, eying the bottle of alcohol in his hand “You don’t have any brothers or sisters?”