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I s and nod, wipe my eyes “It’s so weird,” I rasp

“What is?” he asks softly

“Not reuess” Ilike a broken freak

“It’s kind of weird for me too, but it’s okay It will really be okay” I look at Josh out of the corner of my eye, and he adds, “Can you believe that?”

“Do you want that?” I whisper “Are you sure?”

“I’ you, Ezra Ever All I did since you left ant you”

He looks like he ain He brushes his lips over o? That e can really talk I’ll fill you in on so much stuff, and you can fill me in, too”

I nod Miller leans his head against his seat’s headrest and givesme” His voice is just a little hoarse “I hope it’s worth it”

“It will be worth it to me Can you believe that?” I quirk a brow up

He nods

We walk to the restaurant’s door, shoulder to shoulder, and while ait on the food, we sit beside each other in a booth, and Miller rubs his knee againstbeside me in a Waffle House at 2 am, and I just can’t believe it

It was all real

“What are you thinking?” hehis cheek in his hand

“That it’s real”

He smiles, all blue eyes and freckles and those soft lips “It’s so real You want to ask s we did together?”

I nod, and he takes my hand under the table

It turns out to be a crazy story We drive to a trailhead in a wooded neighborhood and eat our waffles in the dark car as he tells e, and how I taunted hirabbed his dick on the roof