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“What is it?” she asked quickly “Bastian? What’s wrong?”

I shook my head

“Nothing,” I lied “Just in uess You surprised me”

Her eyes narrowed into a “don’t give lare

Unable to voice as going on in my head, I turned without a word and headed to the bathrooh I didn’t usually bother Too much ti me take a piss

She hammered on the door

“I’ that!” she called “Tell me what happened!”

“Can’t hear you, babe!” I called back as I flushed and turned on the water at the sink

“Open the door!”

“What’s that?”

“Bastian!”

“Huh? What?” I yelled “Can’t hear ya over the water!”

This went on for a few , shaved, and brushed ive up, I turned off the water and waited another minute before I opened the door I could hear her in the kitchen, so I went through the bedrooo out on the balcony to smoke

Raine obviously wasn’t happy when I cah to putI only had to put up with a few glares and so for dinner That suited me just fine because it meant I could be just a little bit pissy in return and clairumpy

Yeah, we guys can have our ames, too