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‘Why are you awake?’

‘Why are you asleep afterwith my head?’

What? Me! Sitting up and crossing s as if that would help, I typed harder, as if he could feel h the phone

‘Me uy who drops the 'I like you’ bomb and kisses the life out ofyou in, only to be a gentleman and tellwith your head, Dr Davenport, it’s you who iswith mine’ I felt proud the moment I hit senduntil I realized how crazy I must sound

“I hate trying to date,” I said, falling over to the side, not wanting to see his reply There should be a take-back button on es

Peeking at his e when my phone vibrated, I preparedwith you You ht?’

‘Yes’ I answered without overthinking, because it did feel nice

‘It does foryour face e talk, so I’ll just wait a few more hours Sleep well, Guinevere’

‘You too, Eli’ Falling back on my bed, I remembered that his bedroom was just on the other side of the wall If he was in there texting, he was right behind me I wanted to knock on the wall, but that just see onto my pillow

I felt like I had only closedover with his leash and dropping it beside lanced at the clock: 5:32 AM

“Taigi, it’s too early Can we go later?” I rolled over

He jumped onto my bed

“The sun isn’t even coed

He just pushed the leash toward me and barked

“Okay, okay” I felt like an old wo capris, though I hadn’t run since I was kid I usually took him to the park and just waited for hi squirrels or his ball