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It did seem like a million miles ae were kids to be fair, but now I knoe’re still young, and we have all the time in the world to find another partner if anted

“I always thought that you would end up with E “When ere thirteen anyway The cheerleader, do you reht that it would only be a matter of time before you noticed her too”

“Eirly for me I never liked her like that I can’t believe that you thought I did You know, she did ask ht I told you that”

Her eyes almost pop out of her head in shock “No, you never told uy in our class ouldn’t have cut off his right arm to be with her”

There is a wistfulness to her voice now that sends us both back in tiets carried away

“Well, Eric what’s his nao out with you, and you never liked him either”

“He did not” She leans across and shoveswith me”

We both laugh and I can feel the tensionus free to calet weird And joking around with her takes me back Makes me feel like we are close like ere Easy to talk to

Then a negative thought creeps in I wonder if my uncle knows about Stix yet I wonder what he thinks happened He ht think that I have been kidnapped or dead He hasn’t calledif I’ve ever seen one Shit Maybe he wants me dead too, I didn’t even think of that possibility

But just as the panic grabs ain She just has this way of re me that there is more to the world than what I have experienced

“I better go shower,” pulling herself away froet to work in a bit But don’t worry, I will h hot water left for you I remember how fussy you are about your hair It always needs to be exactly in place” Before she leaves, she brushesit does is send a jolt of electricity through both our bodies