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I want to smother her with affection To hold her cheeks and whisper dirty things in her ear To put my lips to hers before she climbs four-hundred feet in the air
But with everyone here, it’s like I’uard
Her friend
Like we’ve shot backwards, and I can’t paddle to the place I want to be That feeling settles inside me like a chainsaw Just friends
Only friends
I’ve never hid my affection in a relationship I hate this And the worst part: this is all either et with Sulli One of us will never know more
On the grass beneath the cliff-face, Banks is standing beside ivesmy nails
All I’ my palms back and forth Under my breath, I tell hiaze for a second “When it was just the three of us”
“Yeah” Banks nods about five times “Me too”
We both go rigid Watching Winona cliear, she’s the lead cli about six-feet below
While Winona stops at an anchor she just placed, she grips a Canon camera strapped around her neck And she films Sulli
Jack should be up there
He’s climbed and filmed Sulli before But apparently at the RV ca basketball with most of SFO and Jesse
I wasn’t there But as the story goes, Oscar raided every RV for ice, even knocked on other ca his husband had proper first-aid
Jack’s seventeen-year-old shaggy-haired, surfer brother is here to help shoot, but Jesse isn’t that skilled at rock clie for the production tearaphy, but mostly, she was just excited to climb next to her sister
I run lance at Banks Glance at Team Apex Glance at her cousins Glance at Ripley Baby needs a bodyguard Glance at SFO and Jack’s cameras A tripod is set-up near me and Banks The lens is aimed at Sulli
Jack adjusts the ca closer to the rock face, fille
My eyes flash back to the rock at sudden movement Winona She drops her Canon Hooked to her neck, the caainst her chest, then she slips
Maxi her slack as the rope catches her fall
Sulli never flinches Still focused, she rises
“Watch out for those fire ants! I hear they can be bad around here!” Lincoln on Team Apex yells up at Sulli
Now she flinches, and instinct propels , and Banks is hot on my heels Just as livid, and we’re not even twenty-feet on them when they bolt