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He kept staring at me

“What?”

“I’”

“You do that,” Iback

“Okay, so you drink Dad’s ith someone outside of the fa I see between you two?”

“Friendship, that’s it The first tiize, this tiht it was the least I could do after she bought me shoes—”

“She bought you shoes? Eli, come on, don’t lie—”

“We are just friends We don’t see each other in any other way than that It would be odd if we did We are the only two people who understand what it feels like, so we talk Get your head out of the gutter”

He pursed his lips, drinking slowly

“I an”

“I didn’t say anything I was just thinking hohen I was trying to be friends with her, you told her to stay away from me—”

“Just watch TV and shut up”

He did, but only for about two ? She is going to be there”

“No Why would her being there matter to me?”

He shrugged “Iupto have to go through that alone”