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My heart skipped and m constricted For a moment, I couldn’t breathe

“Me?” I finally choked out

He nodded and went back to coloring

I stepped the rest of the way into the roo was definitely of a person, but I wasn’t too sure anyone would think it wasas his body, and Alex had colored in red shorts over stick legs The are balloon shapes, and the hands were little round balls with five tiny sticks co out of them

I couldn’t help but smile

“How do you know it’s me?” I asked

“Right here,” Alex said as he pointed to the blue dots on the oversized head “Your eyes are the same color as mine Raine said so”

“She did, huh?”

“Uh huh”

I wondered what else she had told him

I pulled out the extra chair froed it around to sit next to Alex My ass barely fit in the seat, and I was a little worried it was going to break under h

t I shifted a little, deciding the chair would at least hold me for a while, and looked down at the simple piece of printer paper covered in crayon marks

“What are these?” I asked, pointing to a couple of objects near the feet of the figure

“Dumbbells,” he said He looked up, and his eyes traveled over my ar”

He pointed at the balloon arms