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He sounded excited as we reached the bottom floor “Yeah” I had no idea why the hell I said that; it just spilled out of i run by hi

“I usually do the Hudson River route, it’s alood too Do you start your run from here?”

Alht now?

“We—” Before I could finish telling hibeside me

Why, Taigi, why? I screaet out of it now It was early enough that the sidewalks toward the park wereout

When we made it to the park I hoped, prayed one of them would slon, but they were in their own little world, running farther and farther along the path while I could feelup

Come on, Guinevere, you can do this Justin slowly through my nose and out my mouth

I thought I was doing pretty well for a little bit too, untilwent nui’s annoyance I slowed, finally stopping at a bench and grabbing

“Are you all right?” Eli came over

I noticed that while I eating like crazy, he just looked like so, I just sat, trying to catch my breath

“I’m not a runner” I threw up my hands “I have no idea why I said I was I take hio for a run, I takeI think I’ for?”

“Twenty-four minutes—”

“Really?” I was surprised I had ! “See? I can’t even ht?”

He knelt down in front ofyou didn’t stretch?”

“All ofis worse I stretched ot out of bed, but other than that, no” No point trying to hide o back home and close my eyes Maybe I could restart the day