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But you did

“Well…” I glanced down at the ie on my screen “It’s pretty hot I’m pretty hot—”

“Listen We’ll erase the videos and the pictures” I flinched I didn’t want to erase anything They were part of our story Part of us “And we’ll tone it all down, right? We’ll tone down your clothes and I’ll stop kissing you all over town—”

“I like my clothes”

“I like your clothes too, but we have to fix this Fix you”

All around us Christ saved But inside…inside I was dying Slowly Light by light allcrushed under his words

“We’ll say we fell in love while you working here”

“I thought we did,” I said, through numb lips

“We won’t as”

“But I already did You can’t erase Vegas, Ethan You can’t erase me”

He looked like I punched him

“No,” he breathed and I gave the guy credit He realized he’d gone too far the second the words were out of his mouth “No You…you are perfect I’m sorry I’m so sorry I didn’t…I didn’t ”

I nodded, feeling shell-shocked in my stomach “You still don’t remember our proposal?”

“It was just the other day In the workshop Of course, I remember”

“No Our real one In Vegas”

He shook his head

“You were trying to convince me that you were spontaneous And I didn’t believe you You let me cut your tie, you said it was your favorite and you just letAnd you said, I love you, Lexie How do I prove that to you And I said ‘marry me,’ and you said ‘yes,’ and then I woke up alone But for that night, I really thought you loved ht you loved me”

“I do I swear I do”

“Not if you want to fix o to school, too? Learn how to talk better”