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Summer was the bitch

Autumn was the nice one

“You could if you applied yourself Your little issues are not a big deal if you actu—”

As always, her sister co difficulty as if it was just sheer laziness Summer used to tell all of her friends that Autumn was just thick and stupid

“I’ to make it for the pre-dinner drinks, or the speeches Hilary needed me today, and I proreed to that months in advance”

“You’ve known about our parents’ anniversary since you were a child, Autumn”

She rolled her eyes Their parents loved each other, and wouldn’t appreciate Su it as a way to suck up to her colleagues, or to brag about how her parents had stayed together

“I’ll be there when I can, Su, but there is traffic everywhere”

“Fine Fine I’ll just have to deal with this all by myself What a surprise”

Autu the call There was no point trying to reason with her sister Su of the word “reasonable”

“Co she’d left tenabout trying to get on time to her parents’ anniversary party The next hour passed, and finally she was able to pull off on her section, zooh the streets, and suddenly she heard a crack, and when she looked out of the back of her car, blooms of white smoke followed her “Crap!”

She always forgot to get her car in for any kind of service or check Dropping her head to the steering wheel, she could have happily sobbed

“This is not happening t

o me”

There was a knock on her ,up, she looked over and frowned She recognized the face staring back at her His hair was pulled back like she remembered so many times before The shirt he wore revealed his array of tattoos that had started when she last saw hier than she remembered, more muscular Carter Blue stared back at her The same Carter Blue who used to date her sister