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Cade had gone out and gotten a haircut this er side, but now just past his ears which is a vast ione

Cade starts to back out “Stop!” I cry and he sla for the door handle I push it open and tu for the house I don’t make it far before I stop in the middle of the yard and throw up

“Thea?” Xander calls worriedly, and a moment later his hand touches the s my hair away from my neck

I inhale a ragged breath, trying to cal stomach

“I think I’m okay,” I say after a moment “Just nerves”

His brows knit together, and I can tell he’s unconvinced

“I need to go brushaway from him

His hand falls from my hair and he follows e door so I head right inside and up the stairs

“Thea?” Xander probes as he followson? I’m worried”

I flip on the bathroorab my toothbrush and toothpaste—practically the only essentials left in the bathroom

“I don’t know,” I tell him honestly “I really think it’s just the nerves,” I explain, but I’m unconvinced, and I can tell he is too

“Do you think it’s that bug or whatever you had a feeeks ago?”

I shrug “Idoubtit,” I say, arbled around the toothbrush I spit and rinse my mouth “I took antibiotics for it, so I doubt it’d come back, especially this soon”

“But you feel okay, right?”

“I’m a little tired, but that’s normal” I wipe my mouth and reapply my lipstick