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And it could have Not sure I would have noticed Everything faded away The crowd The docks The balloons Arthur had been clutching and his sign both as his strong hands clung to my shoulders as we kissed in earnest He tasted like he sainston

“Welcoainst radually pulled s Applause Whoops of laughter Clicking cameras But still I couldn’t seem to look away from him

“Your balloons escaped” Arthur’s friend was laughing harder now

“So they did” Arthur turned his gaze skyhere the colorful balloons were racing to the heavens

“And posted! Man, this video is so going viral” The friend esture

“Wait Video? Viral?” Shaking my head, I tried to clear ain, ent this time

“Arthur! Derrick!”

Sto, I slowly turned h, though, Arthur’s parents—two people I had mad respect for, especially his retired e eyes

“Your parents came?” I whispered to Arthur as I released him

“Not part of the plan” He shrugged like this wasn’t a huge fucking problem “It was a surprise tothey’d missthe excitement Oops”

“Yeah, oops You could have said so”

Arthur blinked “Exactly when?”

He had a good point, so all I could do was sigh

“What is this?” Arthur’s ry, more perplexed with a furrowed forehead Me too, Jane Me too This was fast beco a clusterfuck I really didn’t want to confess to the petty jealousy that had led toto Calder’s crazy plan, but maybe—

“Dao, Fox”

Oh fucking hell Killstrike would have been welcoht there And yeah, that was the whole point, for the from, but noas trapped

“Hey, Molance for Fernsby or Steve, doing an i them