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“So like I said, she had thick, dark hair with blonde highlights and she looked young, college ageAnd she kept looking around the place”

I could feel the tension coiling in his body “Looking around at what?”

I shrugged, suddenly feeling uncoruff man who’d rocked my world and why had this cold automaton showed up in his place? That hen I realized that the man next to me, this version of Cross, this was him “I don’t know She touched the paintbrushes, palettes and ”

He fell silent and I waited until he gathered his thoughts “Would you recognize her if you saw her again?”

“Of course, she was five feet in front of me the entire time”

“Is this her?” Cross shoved the phone in my face and showed me a photo of the wo her tacky blond highlights

“Yeah, it sure is”

“Thanks” Apparently that really was it and I nodded my acceptance I had no expectations of Cross other than basic human decency but it still hurt to be so soundly rejected

“No problem,” I replied because I would never in a million years ain I tried that once and I didn’t like how it ended

Before we even entered oodbye and turned back to his bike parked behind the shop

I was just about to rinse the kale when the alarroaned It was tiet hi His asthma attacks had increased in frequency lately, but not in intensity Even though the episodes scared me numb, I had to believe he wouldn’t have this horrible illness forever

Luckily the appoint as the ot Other than an hour wait to get into the exa room, the appointment went as expected No better but no worse

On the way ho today?”

“I hate the nebulizer”

“Rerow up throwing around such loaded words when he didn’t have to This world was filled with too ativity as it was