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She looked surprised at that “But we’ve barely talked since grade school”

“Everly Come on Twin Oaks is a small town Everyone knows everyone, and everyone knows everyone’s business”

She shook her head “That’s not what I mean Tell me you didn’t think I was a stuck-up snob Tellevery day with me at the library Tell ”

She kinda had me there “Truth?”

“Absolutely Truth,” she replied

“You’ve never been part of my crowd, so I wasn’t sure what to expect And I’ personal, but hell, ere in theI had to be honest “I’uy I used to be I’m not one hundred percent Not after the accident, and that’s been kind of hard to deal with” I was quiet for a few ht you would think I was just another loser, you know? So at a road leading nowhere Not even Nathan knows…”

Her hand crept across the table, and she covered my fist She arm And soft

And when I glanced up, the look in her eyes took my breath away Like literally I couldn’t breathe

That’s what this girl did to me

“What doesn’t Nathan know?” she asked It took a bit for me to push away the luh to share I don’t think I’d ever been this freaked out by a conversation before

“For as long as I can re It kind of defined who I was Who I want to be And I’ me to come to New York this fall, and I don’t think I have what it takes anyht “Jesus, I haven’t played in front of anyone since our last gig I’s Play the wrong notes, screw up the lyrics It really sucks to be seventeen and to know that the one thing you’re good at, that thing that is your dreaone”

“Then maybe you need to find some new ones,” she said so softly that it took a moment for her words to sink in

“But what if I don’t want a new one? What if I can’t get past this?”

She stared attic in the back of an to press in hard

Everly pushed her chair back and stepped around the table until she was beside irl surprised me We were in the middle of a restaurant