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Vann frowns “You wanna start your own ga company?”

I stop putting on my shirt and look at him “Yeah Why?”

He chews on that for a second as he pulls on his shorts the rest of the way “Nothing Just you never told me that”

“Oh Didn’t I, though? I figured it’s obvious I’amer with loads of ideas, and—”

“Not that obvious”

“Hmm”

The dreaded aard silences falls on us again Vann finishes changing, then heads off without another word I’oes, I can’t help but watch him and fume Aren’t we supposed to be friends? Isn’t that the whole thing I was trying to tell him at the park that one day? I didn’t say: Let’s be super aeirdos fro for longer than ten seconds

This is the exact opposite of what I wanted between us

And thus begins the 74th Annual Desperation Gaether?” I cheerily ask hi back into our clothes I know, it isn’t the most ideal way to communicate to him, e’re half-dressed and I can barely peel my eyes off his bare chest where I put so hts to sleep But it’s now or never If I don’t see hiht o our separate ways home, the only way I’ll be able to talk to him for the next six or so days is on the phone

Vann, gripping his shirt he was about to put on, glowers suddenly When he looks at me, there is a flicker of frustration in his eyes “Are you and I really going to keep pretending this whole ‘friendship’ thing isn’t a total joke?”

His words are a sledgeha here”