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“She loved ht, it felt like she still does I don’t know for sure…I don’t really know anything for sure, but I need to knohat y’all think before I even think about broaching the subject with Sandy”

“You’re asking us if ant to bring Sandy into our lives as our girl One girl and six guys?” Arden says His expression is strangely serious in a way that confusesfor your reflection in a funfair mirror What you see is only half what you expect

“One girl Six guys” Tyler nods

“Fuck,” Imy hands

“You got soet off your chest, D?” Tyler asks me

For aintoback like I usually do

When Dad’s fists were raining down on my mom, and I was too little to help her, I’d sit in silence with my brother Silence was a safe place

It would make this simpler to stay quiet I could just follow the crowd There are four other guys getting invited into this situation I don’t need to be at the forefront of the response Except I can see what this is costing Tyler to say

For whatever reason, he’s opening up this vulnerable part of hireatest weaknesses If he can do that, then I should be willing to step forward too

“I get you, T I get where you’re co to coh…well, it’s enough to tell ht all sound crazy, but ood for Sandy, and she could be soood for us”

Tyler nods at me, and a flicker of a smile tweaks the left side of his mouth

“You’ll get jealous,” Andrew says “Fuck, if I was you and I had Sandy, I’d go fucking crazy if another guy tried to lay their hands on irl”

“She’s not a steak, Andrew She’s not so left for me She’s a person with so h for us all I’m sure of it”

“Look at us,” Arden says, the grin fir to crush on Da to look at my blond-haired, blue-eyed brothers and me and want to jump our bones We’re all too different to appeal to one woman”

“Maybe,” Tyler says “Maybe Sandy will think I’m crazy and leave, and I’ll be back to where I was yesterday before she blew back into et her to forgive me and keep her totiured out”

“This is going to end in tears,” Andrew says, hefting the tire back off the floor